Using device camera without Qt Mobility

mannu

Hey
I wanted to know is there any other way to access device camera in a symbian phone through a Qt application without using Qt Mobility. I read that the camera api has been removed form Qt Mobility. Please help me out

leon.anavi

The camera API is available at "Qt Mobility 1.2.2 documentation":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility/multimedia.html#camera-support. But if you insist on not using it as an alternative you combine "Symbian C++ camera API":http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/1cde08b0-1f57-41ba-851b-776c43fdec6c/S60_Platform_Camera_Example_v3_0_en.zip.html with Qt.

mannu

after making the following changes

.pro file

CONFIG += MOBILITY
MOBILITY += multimedia
symbian:TARGET.CAPABILITY = UserEnviornment

i am still not able to create objects for the QStillImageCapture Class.

leon.anavi

Did you run qmake after changing the pro file? What error did you get?

mannu

yep i ran it, i gives the error QStillImageCapture not declared in this scope. in the headers i have included Qcamera, QCameraViewFinder, QMediaObject, QObject, QVideoWidget. Am i missing any header files?????

leon.anavi

If you use Qt Mobility 1.2.2 you should use the following approach to "capture a still image":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility/multimedia.html#still-images.

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camera = new QCamera;
viewFinder = new QCameraViewfinder();
viewFinder->show();

     camera->setViewfinder(viewFinder);

     imageCapture = new QCameraImageCapture(camera);

     camera->setCaptureMode(QCamera::CaptureStillImage);
     camera->start();

     //on half pressed shutter button
     camera->searchAndLock();

     ...

     //on shutter button pressed
     imageCapture->capture();

     //on shutter button released
     camera->unlock();

@

mannu

i am using qt mobility 1.2.0 what is the alternative for QCameraImageCapture here??

mannu

hey lenon.anavi did it, included the header. One last thing, where is this image stored?