Does anyone have experience with importing (still) images directly from a webcam, e.g. iSight, into a Servoy solution?
I have to add a picture for each customer and ideally, i wouldn’t have to use any other software than Servoy. When opening a new customer I’d like to just click on a button, point the webcam at the customer, hit “capture” and the pic would be stored - is that feasible?
Thanks for feedback,
Reto
PS: Working on OS X…
Do you want to deploy this on a Mac (stand-alone-app.) or cross platform?
And then again Servoy should communicate with an USB bus, don’t know if this possible.
A (cross platform) solution would be to let the webcam put the stills (via third party software) in a specific directory and let Servoy do the handeling with the file plugin. Be aware of the fact that Servoy puts the right pictures in the right record where a customer wants to add some information but I asume you’ll figure that out.
At macupdate.com and versiontracker.com you’ll find free and shareware.
I’m verry curious how you get this working!
I thought I would resurrect this thread instead of starting a new one. I’m looking for a plugin/bean similar to the Troi Grabber FileMaker plugin. Anyone have any insight (or iNsight? ok, bad pun).
Take a look at my MediaManager Plugin and my ImageBean.
If they doesn’t do exactly what you want I’m sure we can introduce the feature.
cheers
Great! I’ll have a look and try to have some feedback in the next week or two.
After having worked with iPhoto, save picture and load the file into Servoy for a long time, I’d like to give the faster and easier method another try. Maybe by now, somebody has figured out something slick…
I’m rewriting my solution, which now includes a simple form, that allows the student (dance school) to enter his personal data himself on a dedicated workstation, when buying the first membership. It would be great if I could use the built-in webcam to directly take a picture and store it together with the rest of the client’s information. Of course, this would have to be very easy to do: clicking a button, taking a couple of pictures until happy with the portrait, when the client is OK with the picture, it should be stored in Servoy. Is something like that possible?
On cybersack.com I couldn’t find the Servoy plug-ins or find out if that would help…
Thanks,
Reto
PS: Working on Servoy 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
yes, we do this with the scanner plugin of sintPro.
This is a plugin, that uses the (local) twain-driver, so you can access a simple webcam, take a picture of somebody, and put the image directly into the DB.
Hope this helps
I tried to find out more about the plugin and download it, but cannot connect to the server. According to the Servoy plugin list, it should be found under http://www.sintpro.com/scannerplugin_eng.php, however, sintpro.com cannot be found. Is that just a temporary problem or has the site moved?
Hi reto,
I see the same thing. The domain registration and DNS look correct but the server itself seems unreachable. Perhap Nicola has some hardware issues.
I suggest you try later again.
hmmm, indeed, it looks that his website is down…
Either the server was down and is now fixed, or there is a problematic router somewhere on the 'net that interferes with attempts to connect to sintpro.com from only some locations, because http://www.sintpro.com/scannerplugin_eng.php loaded fine for me just now
No problem here either…
yes, it’s working here again, also
Sorry for the inconvenience guys, we had some network issues while I was in vacation and the network admin was a bit lazy to fix things up, everything is now working again.
Let me know if you experience any other issues.
The download worked, but it looks like the plugin does not do what i need. With plugins.sintproScannerPlugin.GetTwainSources() I don’t see the MacBook’s camera: [“No available TWAIN Source found”]. When I call the method the first time a program called TwainProxy starts, the second time I call it I get an exception: “Exception Object: java.lang.NullPointerException”.
Has anyone done something like that with the built-in camera on a MacBook?
The Macbook built-in camera is not TWAIN or WIA compliant, I’m sorry but my plugin will not work with it.
I’m sorry but the scanner plugin only supports TWAIN and WIA devices and unfortunately the Apple iSight is not using those standards. You could try to google around and see if someone wrote a third party TWAIN driver for it but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
EDIT: sorry for the double post, I really didn’t remember to have already answered and didn’t move to the last page…
Looks like my brain is still on vacation…