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[Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagger/+bug/1575552

On 27 April 2016 at 16:06, Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I have now transferred a file directly onto the tablet and that will
> read,
> > this suggests that trying to read them directly off a screen is confusing
> > the app. I have done the same with the codes I need to read and it
> doesn't
> > work. Inverted the colour, doesn't work. Other people here using android
> or
> > ios can read them just fine. I have attached one of these codes to the
> bug.
>
> Bug link please?
>
>
> > On 27 April 2016 at 11:26, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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