Comments on: Views of UIImagePickerController

By: share code

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:55:54 +0000

Sudha – you can just use UIGetScreenImage(). It was approved by Apple last November pending any future solution.

By: sudha

sudha — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:07:25 +0000

Ben, did Alex or Rolando gave you some leads on this? could you share some info please?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:22 +0000

Has anyone figured out a solution to this trouble? Rolando, if you have a legal way of doing this or anyone else that is reasonably fast I would be willing to pay for the solution. The new 3.1 routines are too slow. UIGetScreenImage() works fast enough for our usage and uses little memory but it is part of the private api. email: delay at pobox dot com if anyone has any code they want to give away or sell that solves this trouble.

By: hypno_toad

hypno_toad — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:37:43 +0000

Well the new 3.1 OS certainly makes it a lot nicer to change the UI for the UIImagePickerController

OverlayViewController *oController = [[OverlayViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@”OverlayView” bundle:nil];
oController.tabController = self;
self.overlayController = oController;
[oController release];
UIImagePickerController *uip = [[[UIImagePickerController alloc] init] autorelease];
uip.delegate = self;
uip.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
uip.showsCameraControls = NO;
uip.cameraOverlayView = overlayController.view;

Currently trying to use the takePicture method in a timer to feed a barcode reader. takePicture seems to be taking a picture though it’s a 2MP (3G iPhone for ref), I resize that to 320×480 and feed it to the barcode reader but then it won’t recognize it. For some reason UIGetScreenImage() works really well though. I would like to stay away from using that, so any suggestions?