Thread: Ask to marry him over camera app!!!
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2010-03-19 , 08:41
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Originally Posted by hopbeat View Post
Can be done in a much easier way. Write script that will wait for a new file to appear in the pictures folder and as soon it does (photo was taken) will replace it with predefined proposal image. This should give you effect: take regular photo and the one that appears should be the predefined one.
If for some reason (I haven't tested this) it doesn't work as expected, instead of swapping the images, your script can simply call viewing application with the proposal image. Not as smooth as in the first case, but should do the trick.
Not having tested either solution I believe the first one might be too unreliable: cam takes picture > saves pictue and displays it within the cam viewer > new picture is detected and replaced > cam viewer probably still shows old (real) image taken.

The second one may make for a not-so-cool transition between the cam application and the image viewer with the fake image, but if somebody isn't used to the N900 (and maybe not paying so much attention to the screen right after taking the photo), maybe it doesn't matter.

also, remember that the N900 shows a photo only for a certain period of time normally. (you can change it, but i don't know if you can set it to "forever".) - what if she just sees something else right after she took the picture and doesn't look at the N900 at all? Bringing up the image viewer would give you all the time you need to let her do whatever she does and then say "ahm, well, let me see the pic you shot... "