Using Camera in Android

[John73]

SUCCESS

Thanks for all your help.

I’ll try to write a very basic, just get picture from phone camera and post it at some stage for others that might be tearing there hair out in the future.

[John73]

Spoke to soon.

Camera is now working when I call the TakePhoto() Function but I am then getting an error from the onPicutureReturned(ImageURI) function -> Cannot set property ‘src’ of null.

I’ve used remote debugging in Chrome. navigator.camera.getpicuture() is available, and obviously working, but ImageURI is undefined.

I’ll keep trying a few different things to see if I can sort it out, but any help appreciated if it’s something simple I’m missing.

Here is the code for dealing with the picture taking:

Function TakePhoto()
    options={quality : 25, _
    destinationType : 1, _
    sourceType : 1, _
    correctOrientation : True, _
    saveToPhotoAlbum : False, _
    allowEdit: False}
    
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPictureReturned, onPictureError, options)
End Function


Function onPictureReturned(ImageURI)
    imgScore.firstChild.src=ImageURI
End Function

Function onPictureError(message)
  MsgBox "Couldn't take picture because " & message
End Function

And here is what I see in the remote debugging:

[ghenne]

Check imgScore.firstChild. I bet there is nothing there, so setting its src won’t work.

[John73]

@ghenne

Check imgScore.firstChild . I bet there is nothing there, so setting its src won’t work.

You’re correct.

I’ve changed it to imgScore.src and it now works fine.

One question, I got the original code for the onPictureReturned from: Using Cordova Plugins - NSB App Studio

Is the code in the link above wrong or am I missing something? A very quick look through the docs looks like maybe using imgScore.firstchild.src might be the Javascript version?

Thank you again. Might be able to go back to sleep now

[ghenne]

You’re right - the Tech Note was incorrect. The sample (“PhoneGapCamera”) had it right.

We’ve fixed the Tech Note.