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mBarcode starts too slowly for my liking, so I've added some qDebug()s with elapsed times. This is what we see with the first run through (not all classes instrumented):

So it looks like the GStreamer pipeline setup is taking a rather long time, and surprisingly the plugin loader thread (or the DBus connection registration) too, I need to look into that as it should really run async...

Hmm, that table looks awful, will edit it to remove the tabs

Just wanted to mention again how great this app is! A friend recently got an android phone and wanted to show off the super cool app she had. She can scan bar codes and look stuff up! I pretended to be impressed.

Another friend was scanning a qr code with inigma on his iPhone yesterday. I had inigma on a previous windows phone and it is a good scanner, but neither that version nor the iPhone version is as quick or offers as many options as mBarcode.

So kudos to the author!

Thanks for the nice comments rmerren

Going back to the startup speed, looks like I made a school-boy error moving the plugin loading to a thread some months ago, I've now fiex this and we end with a startup time which is twice as quick, however the plugin loading still needs to be done. My preference would be to defer this until after the UI is displayed and then let it run in a bg thread, but apparently it's not possible to set thread priorities so this interferes with the camera view, so I'm currently thinking that the plugin loading should be performed when the results window is first displayed - this produces a delay, which is not ideal, so I'll see if there are any other options re. threading.

In any case I hope to have a new version in Extras-devel this evening.

Today I tried generating a link to this thread:




Works great!

Lol, thanks

Time to get QR codes added to the maemo downloads page so we can install packages automatically too.

Right, I've pushed a version of mBarcode that is faster to startup, but then takes longer to display the results window (on the first go), see what you think.

@ lardman - For my Diablo version I stll need to go through terminal to run. However, not a problem since I use "Personal Launcher" and checked "Run in Terminal".

Yeah Diablo has unfortunately been almost forgotten.

I suppose we should try a backport of some of the newer features, but we'll need to change the UI. How many people are still using mBarcode with Diablo? Anyone fancy taking on the challenge (with me)?

i saw an update yesterday but couldn't update, is there some bug ?