Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

marauderz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:23:03 GMT

I haven't tried out your code yet, but have you tried to run your program on images from a 5MP camera, which are about 900k in size? I'm getting an out of memory exception when I try to create the bitmap object.

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

Howler — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:28:51 GMT

Is there a way to easily get an image from the camera without using the CameraDialog class? I want my program to be able to take and store images without having to show the preview and/or waiting for the user to actually take the picture.

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

Coding4Fun — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:34:05 GMT

@Howler, So what I've learned is you can do it with native code via DirectShow but it is OEM dependent which means just because the device has a camera, it doesn't mean you can use DirectShow.

I'd do some tests with the CameraDialog class to see if you can set visiblity and programmatically take pictures.

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

RobG — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:16:49 GMT

Is there a way to do this within a browser based application that uses PIE or IE on WinMo 6.x?

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

Coding4Fun — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:24:18 GMT

@RobG you want a pure web app that lets you use the camera? Let me find out, I'm leaning toward it isn't possible. I have a few ideas that i know will work on Windows but not sure if they can be done on Mobile.

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

Coding4Fun — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:53:42 GMT

@RobG, Yes you can if you do the camera stuff via an ActiveX Control.

http://blogs.msdn.com/iemobile/archive/2007/06/20/ie-mobile-support-of-activex.aspx

re: Building a Full Featured Mobile Camera Application: C4FCamera

Coding4Fun — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:04:48 GMT

@RobG There are samples in the WM SDK that you could merge together to get it running...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb158780.aspx

The AXSample is an IE Mobile ActiveX sample. There is also a Camera Capture sample that shows you how to call the native Camera APIs. You could start with AXSample and plug in the camera code and then you would just need to do some basic smoke testing to make sure the UI works the way you want from inside IE.