Java Development

[werhop]

Hi Guys,

I hope someone here has a bit advice for me. I am looking to add metadata to an image that is taken from a blackberry using the Player Video Control method. This works all very well, but trying to add metadata results in a message "Setting Metadata is not supported". i dont know why and have followed the examples on http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/javax/microedition/amms/control/FormatControl.htm...) with no result.

The code i currently have is as follows:

First i initialize the camera:

player = Manager.createPlayer("capture://video");
           
            // Set the player to the REALIZED state (see Player javadoc)
            player.realize();
            player.start();
           
            control = (VideoControl)player.getControl("VideoControl");
           
            Field cameraView = (Field)control.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_GUI_PRIMITIVE, "net.rim.device.api.ui.Field");
            control.setDisplayFullScreen(true);
            control.setVisible(true);
           
            add(cameraView);

Once that is done, it shows the fullscreeen viewfinder - all works well.

Then i have a override on the click of the trackball, it calls this method:

Here i try to implement the code to set the metadata, but something seems wrong...

public void TakePicture()
    {
        try
        {
            String encoding = "encoding=jpeg&width=640&height=480&quality=fine";           
          
            ImageFormatControl imageFormatControl = (ImageFormatControl)player.getControl("javax.microedition.amms.control.ImageFormatControl");
            if(imageFormatControl != null)
            {
                imageFormatControl.setFormat("image/jpeg");
                imageFormatControl.setParameter(FormatControl.PARAM_VERSION_TYPE, "JPEG");
                               
                imageFormatControl.setMetadata("geo.lon", "-35.1111111");
            }
          
            _snapShot = control.getSnapshot(encoding);           
            _isInSnapshotMode = Boolean.FALSE;           
            DrawStep2();
        }
        catch(MediaException mediaException)
        {
            Dialog.inform(mediaException.getMessage());
        }
    }

If anyone has any ideas. please comment. i will really appreviate it.

Thanks

[rcmaniac25]

Where does it go wrong, getting the ImageFormatControl? Getting the snapshot, etc. What is the exception?

[werhop]

It goes wrong basically on the line where i try to set the metadata.

Exception is : "Setting metadata is not supported."

[rcmaniac25]

The exception is self explaining, you can't set the metadata.

The problem is the way the JSR process is, if RIM implements a JSR they must implement the entire JSR but they don't need to support all of it.

[werhop]

Thanks for the post. As i am new to BB development i thought maybe i missed something. However i figured out a work-around for my problem... thanks again for the helop.