Hello guys. In my application I try to take a snapshot (photo) from the internal camera of the device. I've read the article about "How to take a snapshot using the built in camera" http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/348583/800332/1089414/How_To... (can be found here) but the problem is ViewFinder doesn't work. My laptop has a webcam so when I start the camera from the simulator's applications webcam starts. On the other hand my application doesn't even start the web cam. I've read the other threads about the problem on the 8900 curve which needed to remove all the fields on the screen to be able to see the viewfinder, thus I removed all the fields but the viewfinder's screen.. Here's the basic code so that you can have an idea. I didn't include the snapshot method, since I can't even start the viewfinder.
<note that I'm using a 8320 simulator with eclipse>
public class CameraScreen extends MainScreen
{
private VideoControl vc;
private String encoding;
private Player player;
private Field viewFinder;
public CameraScreen()
{
try{
player = Manager.createPlayer("capture://video");
player.realize();
player.start();
vc = (VideoControl) player.getControl("VideoControl");
viewFinder = (Field)vc.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_GUI_PRIMITIVE, "net.rim.device.api.ui.Field");
this.add(viewFinder);
}catch(Exception err)
{
}
}
when I push this screen from a new UiApplication it should start the webcam eh ?
Any help will be extremely appreciated. Thanks already...
