Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-05 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Regarding sample stacks, this is a good suggestion - I'm in the process of tweaking how 'extensions' work in the IDE, but ultimately I'd like for things like mergExt externals to show up in an externals tab of the extension manager. I think that would be a good place to be able to launch sample sta

Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-05 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
Guess I didn't scroll down far enough on http://mergext.com/home/mergav/ to see the barcode syntax. THank you for the suggestion. I wentlooking on MergEXT and the various Livecode tutorial/lesson/stack-sharing sites for a MergAV sample stack. The closest I found was a thread on this forum

Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-03 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
There are barcode calls in mergav. There is also a sample stack that demonstrates how to use it for scanning barcodes. All the MergAV calls are documented in the dictionary. I believe the other reason why zx was deprecated was because av is faster and more accurate - at least it would appear to b

Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-03 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
I mistakenly said I couldn't get this to work in 9.0.0dp7 (which it does), I meant to say it did NOT work in 9.0.0dp9 which is on par with 8.2.0.dp1. I know Android doesn't have the same support for barcode reading as iOS, so I'd be fine just getting iPad functionality with this. I manual

Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-02 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Which platform are you going for? mergav is for ios and osx. You can't use "search for", you have to include it manually. it works fine for me in my apps. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Bell via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I just got around to building a new v

mergZXing alternative

2017-10-02 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
I just got around to building a new version of an existing project and discovered my barcode scanner didn't work. Quick check of the release notes for 8.2.0dp1 stated that mergZXing was being deprecated and to use mergAVCam instead. I can't find mergAVCam (assume mergAV is the inclusion, bu