[Tellico-users] Tellico bug in Search facility

[Alexander Fischer]

Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010, 23:03:47 schrieb Sebastian Held:
> Hi Amanda,
> 
> The barcode scanning code is tested with exactly one webcam: mine.
> This damn webcam no longer works with current kernels (gspca driver
> issue...), but it worked great.
> It seems no one is using this, so improving the code was not worth it.

The user has to click a button called scan image (no idea how the button is 
called exactly without l10n but it is something with scan ;)) and why should a 
user click a scan button without a scanner? I only noticed that feature 
because this bug report and i am using Tellico since version 1.2.something :)

Second thing is, at least for my webcam the pictures are so dark, that they 
are useless. Modifying image settings has no effect.

But: The idea to use the webcam for this is great! 

> 
> The multiple ISBN lookup works -- tested one minute ago. Tellico 2.3svn.
> 
> br,
> Sebastian
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 12. August 2010, 20:10:09 schrieben Sie:
> > Thank you Sebastian.
> > 
> > We managed to work out that it tries to read the barcode and fill in the
> > ISBN number to search for, but does not seem happy and mostly gets the
> > wrong number, possibly webcam not great on these little netbooks.  Plus
> > getting random numbers in response to user moving infront of the webcam
> > and so on.
> > 
> > Would you like another issue?  The multiple ISBN lookup only finds the
> > first number on the list each time and reports the others as not found.
> > This is a shame because I hoped it would really speed up data entry.
> > 
> > Maybe I should say that I like the basic data entry and display in
> > Tellico, or you will think I have nothing but complaints!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Amanda
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Wed, 11/8/10, Sebastian Held <sebastian.held at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Sebastian Held <sebastian.held at gmx.de>
> > Subject: Re: [Tellico-users] Tellico bug in Search facility
> > To: tellico-users at kde.org
> > Cc: "AMANDA CHANDLER" <amandachandler862 at btinternet.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, 11 August, 2010, 16:45
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010, 20:45:27 schrieb AMANDA CHANDLER:
> > > Hi there.
> > > I have a problem with the ISBN Search
> > > function in this package. When I run this on Ubuntu 10.4 netbook
> > > edition, running on an ASUS Eee PC 900, it has a couple of
> > > interesting extra features which I am not sure are intentional:
> > > a) it activates my webcam and opens a
> > > new window showing me myself in the webcam, with no controls or
> > > options available to close the window or switch off the webcam (which
> > > is off by default on my system). It does this not only when the
> > > dialogue box opens but again if you change the search e.g. to/from
> > > ISBN.com.
> > > b) when you fill in the ISBN number and
> > > click "search", sometimes instead of finding the book, even
> > > when a valid number is entered which is found on other occasions, it
> > > re-displays the screen with some apparently random ISBN number and
> > > repeatedly searches and changes the number on its own.
> > > Hope this information is enough for you
> > > to track down the bug.
> > > Yours faithfully,
> > > A J Chandler
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this is not a bug, it's a feature ;)
> > The webcam is used to scan for barcodes.
> > This feature is experimental und needs to be enabled _explicitly_ during
> > compile time.
> > 
> > I'm not sure, if it can be disabled without recompiling.
> > 
> > Sebastian
> 
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