Unsolved QCameraViewfinder Widget Size/Aspect Ratio

[Andy314]

Hello,
I must take a photo on a windows tablet.

The way is to put a QWidget on the form and promote it to a QCameraViewFinder.
I test it with a Logitech webcam, but have some aspect-ration problems with this approach. The in the QTCreator included Example has the same problem.
When the program starts it seem that the ViewFinder has the size-ratio of the picture (I dont kown why - coincidentally for my camera ? found no code for it! ).
When I resize the window f.e. to smaller size horizontal, the width of the ViewFinder shrinks correct to the size of its parent QStackedPanel. The height of the ViewFinder (or only its picture) shrinks too, but not in the correct ratio. It is slower so that I get after some shrinking a vertical stretched picture.
How can I get a picture with a correct aspect ratio?
What has the ViewFinder for a size policy or internal drawing function.

[Andy314]

The QCamaraViewFinder seem total buggy. I found additional effects.
When its width is smaller than the video width it shows an stretched active video at bottom (updated by camera) with the correct aspect ratio but cutted at top
and above it a stable area which shows the picture at the moment of resizing (not updated).

If the vertical size is smaller all works correct as expected.
Here is the docu for ui->ViewFinder->setAspectRatioMode(Qt::KeepAspectRatio);
Qt::KeepAspectRatio 1 The size is scaled to a rectangle as large as possible inside a given rectangle, **preserving ** the aspect ratio.

QML demo works in all cases correct so that I think this is definitely a bug in the QCameraViewFinder - espacialy because the vertical size scales. The intention was to scale it but the formula is wrong.

What can I do ?
An other problem is to rotate the image when I rotate the tablet.

[Charby]

@Andy314 May be using QML Camera is the way to go. That's what I did for a previous project running on iOS and Android for taking picture and reading QrCode and it was pretty OK.
I remember though having had to customize things to have the correct orientation...this what I did for the viewfinder :

VideoOutput {
        id: viewfinder
        ..
        source: camera
        autoOrientation: Qt.platform.os == 'ios' ? false : true
        orientation: camera.orientation
}

This should well behave with the rotation of the tablet (at least it is the behavior I wanted)
If you need better control, you need to use sensors, here is a code snippet for rotating the picture taken by the camera, it may be not satisfactory but could help you to give you new ideas :

 import QtSensors 5.3

OrientationSensor{
        id:orient
        active:true
        property int rotAngle :90
        property bool isPortrait : true
        onReadingChanged: {
            if (reading.orientation === OrientationReading.LeftUp)
            {
                rotAngle = -90;
                isPortrait = false;
            }
            else if (reading.orientation === OrientationReading.RightUp)
            {
                rotAngle = 90;
                isPortrait = false;
            }
            else if (reading.orientation === OrientationReading.TopDown)
            {
                isPortrait = true;
                rotAngle = 180;
            }
            else {
                isPortrait = true;
                rotAngle = 0;
            }

        }
    }

Image{
            property alias isPortrait : orient.isPortrait
            property int rotAngle :orient.rotAngle
            id:previewImage
            width:parent.width;
            height:parent.height;
            autoTransform:true
            rotation : rotAngle//Qt.platform.os == 'ios' ? 90 : 0
            transformOrigin: Item.Center
            fillMode : Image.PreserveAspectFit
            scale : isPortrait ? 1.0 :  height/width
            /*onRotationChanged: {
                //width = parent.width;
                //height = parent.height;
                console.log("Image portrait" + isPortrait)
                console.log("current orientations is portrait" + orient.isPortrait)
                if (isPortrait)
                {

                    if (orient.isPortrait)
                    {
                        scale=1;
                    }
                    else{
                        scale=1;

                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    if (orient.isPortrait)
                    {
                        scale=1;
                    }
                    else{
                        scale=height/width;

                    }
                }
            }*/

        }

[Andy314]

Hello @Charby,
the QML-Camera indeed works better.
The autoOrientation property is described in Qt 5.5 documentation but it will be marked as a unknown property in the QML-editor. Nevertheless I get no error when I call the file.
So I think that is an error in the intellisense,
but it works not. The picture keeps its orientation.

[Charby]

@Andy314 If using autoOrientation is not satisfactory I would suggest to change the orientation manually.
You can see an example of how to achieve this in our last meetup materials (https://forum.qt.io/topic/63838/qt-qml-workshop-materials/4), the demo project can also be seen on github.