CameraGenerateMiniature (Function)

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CameraGenerateMiniature (Function)

In french: CaméraGénèreMiniature

Generates a thumbnail of the specified photo or video. This thumbnail is generated in JPEG format.

Remarks:

If photos must be used in Android applications, we advise you to work with thumbnails and not with the initial photos taken by the device.
This function is equivalent to VideoGenerateMiniature.

Example

sPhoto is string = CameraRunApp(viPictureCapture)
IF NOT ErrorOccurred THEN
bThumbnail is boolean
bThumbnail = CameraGenerateMiniature(sPhoto, ...
fExtractPath(sPhoto, fDirectory + fFileName) + "_thumb.jpg")
END

Syntax

Generating an auto-sized thumbnail of a photo or video Hide the details

<Result> = CameraGenerateMiniature(<Source> , <Target>)

<Result>: Boolean

True if the generation was performed. The thumbnail height will be 96 pixels and its width will be calculated according to the width/height ratio of the source image or video.
False if an error occurred. In this case, the ErrorOccurred variable is set to False. To get the details of the error, use ErrorInfo.

<Source>: Character string (with quotes)

Full path of photo or video for which a thumbnail will be generated. For a video, the file must be found in a shared location of device (on the sdcard for example).

<Target>: Character string (with quotes)

Full path of file where the thumbnail will be saved.

Generating the thumbnail of a photo with a given size Hide the details

<Result> = CameraGenerateMiniature(<Source> , <Target> , <Width> , <Height>)

<Result>: Boolean

True if the generation was performed,
False if an error occurred. In this case, the ErrorOccurred variable is set to False. To get the details of the error, use ErrorInfo.

<Source>: Character string (with quotes)

Full path of photo or video for which a thumbnail will be generated. For a video, the file must be found in a shared location of device (on the sdcard for example).

<Target>: Character string (with quotes)

Full path of file where the thumbnail will be saved.

<Width>: Integer

Width (in pixels) of thumbnail to generate.

<Height>: Integer

Height (in pixels) of thumbnail to generate.

Remarks

Required Android version

This function is available on the devices running Android version 2.2 or later (api level 8).

A fatal error occurs if the function is used with an earlier system version.

To find out which version of Android the application is running on, use SysAndroidVersion.

Component : wd260android.jar