I am using MediaCapture.capturePhotoToStorageFileAsync in WinJS to capture photos on a Windows Phone 8.1 device (Lumia 625). The quality of the resulting image is always rather poor and far behind what the built-in camera app delivers.
So far I'm pretty much at a loss in regards to what to tweak and what nobs to turn. Does anybody have experience with this?
Update: It seems the issue is related to the camera not focusing properly. Why that is and how to resolve it is still another question.
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I'm currently working on a project for an interactive visitor space and one of the interactive screens will be two landscape 4K screens side by side with an extended/stretched desktop.
So, the total screen resolution will be 7680px x 2180px. The application will be browser based and will allow multiple users to work with a media library and bring pictures and videos onto the screen and stretch, pan and play them and all that good stuff.
My problem is in testing this solution as we go through development. The actual screens are in Laguna Beach, CA and we are based in London. We can work with 1080p touchscreens, however there is nothing like testing on the real thing and I foresee difficulties.
Does anyone have any ideas how I could emulate this screen size, which would at least allow a little more confidence? I'm thinking of virtual machines, but not sure if this will even work.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks
Pete
Try following this. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003
Good luck!
OK, this might be a very specific question, but I am seriously stuck.
I have an Adobe Air desktop app which runs fullscreen on a Dell Inspiron Touch PC (OS is Win8). The interaction involves some dragging with the finger/mouse.
Edit: I use Air 3.8
Here's my problem: when operated with the mouse, everything works fine and smooth, on this computer and on every other PC I tested it on. But with touch input everything becomes obviously laggy.
When operated by touch, the OS shows a dot which indicates the current position of the recognized finger. When the finger is moved around, this OS output is significantly more responsive than the Air app, where dragging takes longer and lags. So I assume that the problem lies in delivering the touch events to the app.
What I have tried:
setting different values for MultiTouch.inputMode, assuming that
MultiTouchInputMode.NONE would be the most performant
installing a new driver for touch input
setting the mouse speed of the OS to "high"
setting the touch area size of the OS to "small"
Nothing did have an impact, and I am out of guesses…
Does someone have an idea or even experience with this stuff?
Thanks!
Because I had very little time and had to find a solution very quickly (it was a kiosk app for an event), I chose this alternative which worked perfectly: I made a flash file that is shown in the browser in fullscreen. No lag, no performance issues at all. I still don't know what caused this behavior though. No time…
Am working with tiles and badges in metro apps. Here am able to display one at a time either image or number on a tile , But unable to display both at a time. Can anyone help me how to display image and some-number on a Tile?
Thank you.
As MSDN states:
A notification badge conveys summary or status information concerning and specific to your app. They can be numeric (1-99) or one of a set of Windows-provided glyphs.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh779719.aspx
Note: When you hit limits like this you might consider building a custom image that simply has whatever you want. But then you will realize that rendering an image in WinRT is not possible yet. So you will want to offload to some web server... just helping you think this through.
I am developing an iOS application for iPad. Currently I am using images of resolution 2048×1536 px (iPad3 resolution). If I run this app on iPad2 or iPad1 will it get fitted to its resolution (1024×768 px)? Or should I use a 1024×768 images and specify image#2x for iPad3?
Since I only have iPad3 , cannot know how the images will be seen in the lower resolution devices. But it should work perfectly on them too.
Any help greatly appreciated. Please cite your sources.
You could try this in the simulator if you don't have a non-retina device.
It's certainly possible and will usually look fine (at least for photos, text and icons may look worse when scaled down), but you are wasting quite a lot of memory which is pretty scarce on an iPad 1 (it only has 256 MB), so you should usually also include non-retina images.
Automatically scaling down images typically results in visual artifacts, which is why the SDK includes an easy way to include different versions of any image, instead of just a single big one.
As far as I know, all iOS devices (within the same family) have resolutions that are multiples of each other so automatic scaling artifacts are somewhat mitigated, but it is still best to include the correct resolution.
I am trying to develop an iphone application which needs to show a 360 degree video like the one and rotate the video as per the phone movement. How can i do this? Is it possible to do this with normal MPMovieplayer controller?
I don't think you can do this with a normal MPMoviePlayerController, but there are several libraries out there to achieve this. Have a look here:
PanoramaGL
Panorama 360
They work with OpenGL and you can embed them in your Objective-C code.
EDIT:
As #Mangesh Vyas kindly pointed out those are intended to use with fixed images only. However they might be a suitable starting point for embedding video as well, if you modify the code accordingly. They already do the handling of direction, accelerometer etc. so you don't have to implement all that yourself.