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Re: Tagger not working?

 

Did you upgrade to OTA-10 or are you still on the initial release
(OTA-9.5)? There were some issues in the initial release which prevented
some things like screenshotting (and with that prevented tagger from
reading the image programmatically).



On 27.04.2016 12:02, Gareth France wrote:
> Any ideas why mine might not be?
> 
> On 27 April 2016 at 10:51, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Gareth France
>     <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     > I have raised another bug as I have discovered my inability to decode QRs is
>     > a separate thing. I have tried using example codes found online, big and
>     > clear. I have tried taking a photo, cropping and using that photo. Nothing
>     > decodes! On my phone it was effectively instant. I did randomly decode the
>     > letter V from god only knows what when I wasn't even pointing it at a code
>     > yesterday. Can anyone else get this to work on their M10?
> 
>     Yes, it’s working fine for me here on a FHD M10, scanning the QR code
>     on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code is almost instant.
> 
> 
>     > On 27 April 2016 at 10:06, Michael Zanetti
>     <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     > wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 27.04.2016 10 <tel:27.04.2016%2010>:06, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>     >> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael Zanetti
>     >> > <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >> >>
>     >> >>
>     >> >> On 27.04.2016 09 <tel:27.04.2016%2009>:37, Gareth France wrote:
>     >> >>> This is on the M10, on my E4.5 tagger works beatifully.
>     >> >>>
>     >> >>> On 27 April 2016 at 08:34, Olivier Tilloy
>     >> >>> <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     >> >>> <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >> >>>
>     >> >>>     On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Gareth France
>     >> >>>     <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>
>     <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>>>
>     wrote:
>     >> >>>     > It seem that tagger is behaving weird, the image is
>     displayed
>     >> >>> the
>     >> >>>     wrong way
>     >> >>>     > up making it near impossible to centre on what you want
>     to scan
>     >> >>> as
>     >> >>>     it always
>     >> >>>     > moves the opposite way and messes with your mind!
>     >> >>>     >
>     >> >>>     > I haven't been able to scan a single code yet, it just
>     doesn't
>     >> >>>     pick them up.
>     >> >>>     > It was very quck on my phone so this surprised me. Is this
>     >> >>> known?
>     >> >>>     I'm not
>     >> >>>     > sure wher to look for a bug.
>     >> >>>
>     >> >>>     You can look for existing bugs, and report a new one, here:
>     >> >>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagger.
>     >> >>>
>     >> >>>     On which device are you seeing this btw? I’ve tested the
>     E4.5 and
>     >> >>> the
>     >> >>>     MX4, and I’m not observing anything wrong.
>     >> >>
>     >> >>
>     >> >> Actually this happens on all devices. Currently apps cannot
>     distinguish
>     >> >> between Landscape and InvertedLandscape (or Portrait and
>     >> >> InvertedPortrait). I can not fix that in the app until the API
>     in the
>     >> >> platform is fixed.
>     >> >
>     >> > OK, I’m seeing it now.
>     >> > The obvious workaround is to hold the device in portrait/landscape
>     >> > instead of inverted portrait/inverted landscape, right?
>     >> >
>     >>
>     >> Yes. Although I really don't like that workaround :) However, the fix
>     >> for this is not straight forward. It's something to be fixed in
>     Qt and
>     >> also requires to rework a "hack" that got introduced for the
>     camera-app
>     >> in qtubuntu.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
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