Thread: [Announce] Lanterne - an all-purpose flashlight app
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2013-06-04 , 05:15
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
when I first thrown a proposition for such program in Pierogi thread, it was less than 24 hours, before you released nicely working application. Now, few days later, it is feature-full all purpose solution, with addition of things like morse code and indicator led support. It's absolutely awesome rate of contributing!
I've gotta admit, you've got me there; I didn't even know there would be a demand for something like Lanterne. I was able to more or less just throw bits and pieces of Pierogi (and a little of the other pasta products I've been cooking up) into an app in no time flat...

(I should ask, are there other little apps that you might find useful?)

The thing is, that since few releases, kernel-power introduced a (optional) hack, to disable irritating auto-enabling of indicator LED, when video is recorded.
Hmmmmmmm. Actually, if you run Lanterne and the Camera-UI at the same time, _both_ of them have access to the indicator LED. In short, Lanterne can not only switch on the LED, it could in theory suppress anyone else from switching on the LED... (At the very least by switching it off over and over, if nothing else.) Let me see what options there are.

Speaking of camera-ui from cssu - using it, I noticed, that even if Lanterne is configured to use camera key to toggle LEDs, it does as intended for a split second, then, launch camera-ui anyway (disabling LED control for lanterne). Is it intended?
Nope, it's not working the way I'd like at all. I am still pondering the vast mysteries of the camera key. It's used by so many different apps now in so many ways, I'm not sure I'll ever find a way to use it the way I wanted to...
 

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