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[Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm on 10.1. I'm having to scan codes displayed on my desktop screen for
work. I've been looking everywhere but I haven't yet managed to find one
off screen to try. They're everywhere until you need one!

On 27 April 2016 at 11:23, Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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