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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] SPIDERTECH:
"No barcode" and program crashing

I haven't been able to get a single barcode to read yet. I'm only getting the "No Barcode" message (see attachment). Also when I have the Live Scanning turned on and I click Start the program gets an error and closes. I have a screen shot of the error too. I'm using the latest version on a Hyperdragon IV IOLITE rom. I'm going to try installing 7 and see if that works.

EDIT: 7 doesn't work either

EDIT: It's the Live Scanning that's causing all the problems. Which leads me to believe it's an issue with the WinMoNative.dll

When I tried to run the program it would never find a barcode. I turned off autofocus and it found a barcode. I turned on live scanning and I got the error shown in the screenshot. I turned it off and then the program wouldn't find the barcodes even with the autofocus turned off. I deleted the dll and everything works fine now. The only thing is that I get a different error screen when I enable live scanning. I'm satisfied though. I have it directly searching upcdatabase.com and it's working beautifully.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Kerensky97:
I just wanted to mention this again. I haven't seen hypest here for a while but if he reads through again maybe he could add a couple lines of code.

I'm not a programmer so I may be wrong but I would think that it wouldn't be too hard for barcorama to leave off the search string and enter the data straight to the browser if it starts with http://?

When you take a picture of a 2D barcode you have to cut the link from the search box and copy to the address field, and then opera leaves on the http:// so you end up with http://http://www.123.com and the link fails, so you have to scroll over and highlight the first http:// and remove it but then it highlights everything and deletes the link-

Basically it's a PITA for hyperlinks.

http://www.tanimuranana.com/musicd.html
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jeutaw:
Enter "http://www.upcdatabase.com/item.asp?upc=!##!" in Barcorama Setting > Arguments
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Techmaga:
I sort or messed up with the "open program" thing... when I tried to change internet explorer to opera, because there was no "path" feature... what's the directory I should put there to open opera?

I suspect that's why, when I press yes to the question "run externam program?", I get an Oops! The following exception occured trying to run external program: Win32Exceptions...

Right?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jeutaw:
On the AT&T Fuse Opera is...

\Windows\OperaL.exe
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iammorris:
I can't understand why I can't compile this project in Visual Studio.. I've got WinMo SDKs installed and am able to create new WinMo projects just fine, but I cannot get yours to compile?

It's telling me "The type or namespace name 'WindowsMobile' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)"

Also, "The referenced component 'Microsoft.WindowsMobile' could not be found."

Along with many other errors similar (all Microsoft.WindowsMobile.*)

When I click "Add Reference", none of my Windows Mobile DLLs are in the references list - is there something I'm missing about this project?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dcastdal:
Not Working NEED HELP!!

Im getting an Error An unexpected error has occured in Barcorama.exe Select Quit and then restart this program, or select Detailsfor more information. This is on my Moto Q9c I want to use this app can you help me!!!:confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Techmaga:
I'm using Sprint, will it still work on it?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hotmail:
Try installing the latest MS .Net framework on your device.

The software isn't carrier specific. You just need a data plan with Internet access.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] crissg:
Got it, well close enough for now

you may have already figured this out, but I'll throw it out there for the rest. I couldn't get barcorama to put the code in the search field on fastpricecheck, but it does put a copy on the clipboard. So . . . just put:

www.fastpricecheck.com/welcome/keypad in the argument field without the barcode and then when the page loads in PIE, hit edit/paste, and then click submit.

Not as one touch as we would like, but it takes a few steps out of the process.

I hope this helps sombody out there!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jeutaw:
For fastpricecheck.com -- enter the following in the Arguments String in Barcorama...

http://fastpricecheck.com/GetData/HTML/!##!

...this works on both Opera and IE
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] shawty:
Just thought i add a post.

Iv'e just tested this on an Sony Erricson Experia (Windows Mobile Prof 6.1)

Unfortunately, i have to report that the performance is extremely poor.

It only works (That is attempts to scan anything) in live scan mode. Problem is the screen refresh is approx 1 frame every 5 to 10 seconds in live mode.

Trying to use the camera to take the picture, and return it to Barcorama not only fails to return a capture as others have reported, but it does something screwy with the camera viewfinder. This results in the camera not taking any photos but instead screeaching at you and displaying 3 green squares on the screen when the photo button is pressed.

Loading a photo in and asking the app to scan it results in the app just sitting there with "Please wait..." on the screen, and then just beeps when you try to interact on the screen with the pointer.

Lastly, the times i managed to hold the camera still long enough and steady enough to get a barcode scan, and run the app the only string the app would return was "Please wait..."

I must have searched google at least a dozen times in a row with this phrase :-)

In summary, Barcorama does not work with the X1.

If you want any assistance with testing, and more in depth info, PM me and i'll give you my direct email address.

Cheers

Shawty
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] xkaosu9x:
using it on my Fuze as well. the biggest thing to look for is proper lighting. obviously you need to make sure there's no glare, but you want try and get enough light so that the auto white balance actually turns the background white. if it shifts to indoor lighting hues and the background turns sort of a dull orange then it won't read. also, the auto focus works pretty well. its usually just a tiny bit off and is easily fixed by backing away a little. i usually put the phone close enough so that the barcode fills the screen, let it autofocus, and then back the camera away just a hair so the image cleans up and then snap it. once i got the hang of it i didn't have any problems with it recognizing barcodes.

also, i use amazon mobile for my searches. the url is http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/h.html. it pulls up fast and you just paste the barcode into the search box and hit go. you can't use the barcode variable in the url because amazon mobile submits your search string and converts it internally to their own ASID and uses that in the url. but i still find it highly useful.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ugotproblemz:
hi! im using the SE xperia..

can any1 tell me if this cab will work on that phone???

thanks your help is greatly appreciated..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lacasi:
hypest wrote:

Has anyone successfully used the LiveScan mode (with or without the autofocus option). Did it recognize any 1D barcodes?

I personally had success on my Kaiser and a friend's Polaris...

The version included in this post should be much faster in LiveScan mode.

Please, try it out and report back

have fun,

hypest

Attached Files barcorama_v08c_pre2.cab (338.0 KB, 280 views) post #329

Hello

I have testet this version with HTC TOUC HD - it works excellent also in LiveScan with autofocus option.

Iexplore is very slow, but Opera works much faster.(I have iexplore.exe

changed with operaL.exe)

I have testet the barcodes ISBN of books. With a good light while scanning -

it works perfect.

-Can I save with a option the dates automaticly?

-Can anybody here list all databanks adress?

hypest thanks for all your work so far !

lacasi
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
A feature I have missed to report is that with the _pre2 version (at least) touching/clicking the screen when in LiveScan mode will manually trigger the autofocus procedure (if autofocus is enabled in the settings).

Barcorama development is currently stalled as I experiment with other stuff. Besides, the nice people at QuickMark have added 1D code scanning in their (not free) product.

Few posters have asked for the latest source code. I will eventually release that too.

Also, MANY THANKS go out to the people who donated for Barcorama :D (3 at the moment).

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] 1979mark:
Hi,

on my XPERIA it works. But it is slow
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] crissg:
returns 404 error

I actually tried that first, but it didn't work on Opera or PIE. I got the URL from watching the address bar when searching from the PC. For some reason the code isn't actually getting passed to the search. It either serches for "!" or nothing appears after the "/" so you get a 404 either way.

Anyway, that's why I stepped back to pasting it into the search box.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
please make sure that the special substitution substring is !###!. That is one !, three #, and a final !

So, for FastPriceCheck it should be:

http://fastpricecheck.com/GetData/HTML/!###!

You can always use the "#" buttons in Barcorama settings to enter this substring.

Some other useful site settings can be found in this PPCGeeks post: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=567669&postcount=83

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] blaster:
Scanning products in supermarket and list the prices

Is it possible to create a software, where you would scan the price and then it creates an item list? I would like to go into my local store and scan the products, where the first time i type the prices into a database and the next time i go to the store i can scan the stuff and know how much the stuff i'm bying will cost me. it would be cool if someone could program something like that, since i'm too incompetent, or if it already exists tell me where i can get it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] blaster:
btw a cool software
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] benfoster1977:
Does this program work on the Q9c?

Looks like a cool program
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] w_chisum:
yes, very cool software. i tested 5 other barcode reader but this one is the most promising app because it supports 1d codes. is it possible to get the source code?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] shawny670:
I also have an omnia i910 (verizon) and am also getting only "No Barcode" and i tried using changing the the rez to 1280 x 960 and holding phone upright but still no dice does anyone have any clue why this still isnt working??!?!?!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] br4nd0nh347:
Great software though when I had for 6.1!

Hopefully it will work for 6.5 soon!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cent89:
Hi, I run Barcoma on my Samsung Omnia i900 and it's wonderful.

Only a question: if in the qr code there is a vCard ( a phone contact), there is a way to save it and not open the browser??

Thanks to all.

Roberto
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LaMarmotte:
Good product!

Do you have any plan to port it to C++?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] basboy7:
It doesnt work for me when the bar code is found google opens with the query 'Please wait...' and the program freezes at 'Please wait...' too..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] BHUBHU:
I can't get it to work on my treo pro in either mode. When i used a super large barcode on the computer screen it worked fine, but on actual products it always says "no barcode".

Any suggestions?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Luckman:
Using Barcorama with http://www.barcoo.mobi/

Hello Guys, nice App!

I have one question:

How can I find out the RUNARG-string for the settings.txt for the german Website "barcoo.mobi"? :confused:

I have tried a lot already - without any success...

Thanks

Luckman
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
announcing costpad.com

Hello fellow posters!

I just wanted to announce my other pet project: costpad.com

It is a purchases log service that I wanted to develop as a "supermarket companion", but it can be used for any kind of purchases.

see more in the relevant XDA thread

have fun ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] highway:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3101328&highlight=barcodepricelist#post3101328

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3145124&highlight=barcodepricelist#post3145124

I've developed this 2 apps that work with barcorama. One is an frontend so you can have more than 1 choice to send your barcode after read from barcorama.

The BarcodePriceList is keeping a list of all your purchases per shop and date. And you can have also a total. But you have to input prices by yourself.

So have a look if it fits you
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] totemoe:
Is the latest source code closed?

Hello.

Thank you for a very interesting product.

This product completely works at my terminal. :)

I am interested in a "Live" mode very much, but is the source code of "v0.8a" closed?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
The source code is not closed and will be commited to sourceforge some day :)

I'm basically keeping myself busy these days working with the companion site (costpad.com)...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] totemoe:
It is nice.

I look forward to watching a source code sometime.

Thank you.:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ckyam:
Hello and i want to say congrats for the application. it rocks.

Now i have a major issue. Whatever barcode i try , i keep getting on the screen "No Barcode".. I've tried also the images from nsa666 and hypest at Page1,2 but nothing..can you please help me and tell me what's wrong and also give me some images from products like CD's Food wrappers/cans that will surely work so i can see the program in action (really working)?

I tried a 1D from http://www.ptsoft.com/ennouncements/2005/September/barcode.jpg And it worked. Then i tried to search through the internet but i got the message "Cannot find http://www.google.com/search?q=123456789005'.Make sure the path or Internet address is correct"

Any help with this message?

Thank you very much.

HTC FUZE
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
Hello ckyam, thank you for your kind words (ευχαριστώ φίλε ;))

Please, try the attached image... It is of the "Amita motion 330ml" product. It is recognized when I try it...

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ckyam:
Ok. it worked. Thanks a lot. I have another question, can you make it to open Opera instead of IE?

Also is there a way to find "the best rpices" for each product I scan, and give me also the location where to buy each one at the price listed?

(like the program ShopSavvy for the Android), or if there is another program exactly as ShopSavvy for WM6? (i don't want to underestimate your work of course, just that would be great if you could modify it and make it like ShopSavvy :) )
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
There you go.. the jpg is in the zip.

Also, just to be sure, use the v0.8c_pre version found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3167632#post3167632

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ilordvader:
I Att Fuze Org Rom

has anyone got it working on it ?

Do we need to do any setting ?

Thxs
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
v0.9a

Fellow XDA-ers,

I've updated the #1 post and added the new version of Barcorama for testing. It basically is a first try to integrate Costpad.com. Don't forget to register here: http://costpad.com

Warning: the program will access the internet! Charges may apply depending on your data plan...

All comments welcome!

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
Updated to v0.9b

Ooops, v0.9a connected to the Internet upon startup... nasty...

v0.9b accesses the net after entering the costpad related menu items

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] amurch:
aurgumnetrs, SIP

Hello,

I have been looking all over the net for a program like this. I sell used books online and am wondering what Argument to type into that would automatically pull up the scanned ISBN on amazon.com (the listing page, where it shows how much the book is selling for) Thanks again for creatng such a great free program

I am in the market for a scanner attachment for my att tilt but may have to wait a little while. If anyone know of a good scanner + cheap phone (boost mobile) please let me know. I have just lost my job and need some type of income.

Thanks again.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hesian:
Just tried v0.9b on my HTC Touch HD

The menus are all overlapped, making it hard to read, and use.

Last working version I had was v08a
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
hesian, thank you for the report. Would it be possible to make a screenshot of the situation? In case you dont have a screen grabber available, a nice utility is MyMobiler, where you can grab directly on your desktop PC.

thanks again!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
Could you please try this as the Arguments field (under the "External Process" settings in the newer v0.9):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-isbn=!###!

and tell me if it works? :)

And for amazon mobile, this argument seems to work for me (on the desktop browser):

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_box_aps/186-6125759-1509064/?i=aps&k=!###!

If you find it easier, you can directly edit the settings.txt file in the Barcorama folder, using a text editor.

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] amurch:
Thanks for the quick response. I will try the aurgumnets you sent now.

I found a site that allows You to use your tilt as a PDA when scouting for books.

http://www.scoutpal.com/sp/

And the link to the bluetooth scanner is http://www.scoutpal.com/sp/rov.htm

Hope this helps some folks out there. Its a small investment but can pay off big in the long run.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] amurch:
The second "amazon mobile" aurgument works great with version 8

Thank you very much.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hesian:
Here is the screen on my HTC Touch HD when using v0.9b...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
new version

I've updated (yet again) the first post, uploading v0.9c

To hesian: I think this version will work better on your HD ;). Perhaps you want to try it out...

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hesian:
Thanks hypest, it is much improved.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ckyam:
Hello I tried this in the arguments but when opera opens it says Forbidden and doesnt load any page..So what is the correct or a correct argument i can put so i can see the price of each product i scan? thank you (version 0.9c running)

Also tried http://www.fastpricecheck.com/GetData/HTML/!###!, which worked but couldnt find some products like cigarettes or PVS water bottle. Anywayz..i wonder if there is an argument which will search through many different databases and can find almost every product...maybe this http://barcode.weblocalhost.com/mobile.php?q=!###! can find it but it doesnt work for me..keep getting this forbidden page ...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jro2020:
Excel or word

Is there any arguement that I can have it pass to send the barcode to Word on a new line, Or to Excel as entry in a new row? I would really like to be able to use this to make a database of the books I own.

Alternately could your new website be set to export your own personal purchases? That way we could have an offline database for our own use, while helping build the public database?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Sparkz914:
This is pretty cool..What would be cooler if we got that app the iphone has when you just take a picture of what you want and it finds it with the price..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
Geia soy ckyam!

I tested Barcorama v0.9c with both IEMobile and Opera Mobile (v9.5 build 15233) and the "http://barcode.weblocalhost.com/mobile.php?q=!###!" works OK. The webpage is brought up and then you select what search engine to use.

To test it, you can go to http://www.upcdatabase.com/item/4000294136801 and use barcorama to scan the barcode off the PC screen (Live mode with Autofocus).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
hmm, sorry, I don't know of a way to do that :(

well, you will have to be patient :). Data export (and import) will certainly be a costpad feature!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
I've added a tab-delimited CSV export function for the user's purchases in costpad.com. Data import is not that easy though, so that one will have to wait...

to jro2020: perhaps this export will suit your needs for now :)

UPDATE: added an Excel export too (Excel xml)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] w3t:
Nice update hypest... GUI is easier to use now and it looks good on HTC HD with the menu effects...

Does the CameraCaptureDLL sample work on your Kaiser ? It worked for me in WM6 Emulator but not on the Touch HD (wm6.5)...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
Thank you w3t! I would really want to test it myself on an HD too :o

mixed results I should say... please see my updated post here
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] aladdin1001:
Got the normal barcodes to work using portrait mode, however, QR codes are not being read. I keep getting 'No barcode found' error. any help would be much appreciated. thanks

Omnia user
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Bismar:
I can report that the 1280 resolution works the best on the omnia. 320 works if your persistent enough, although the macro mode works better then the default auto focus mode on the camera menu. Is there anyway to make this option default?

The 1280 resolution however takes on the order of some 3 mins to decode the barcode but is almost guranteed. 320 seems to be 1 out of 5?

Also the camera app does not automatically close after it has taken the picture, even though the option is enabled.

Also the live mode crashes immediately.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hyroky:
HI,

I've just tried 0.9c version out. When i'm starting Scan mode my screen on HTC tytn2 gets black above i see a message "Please wait" below i see amessage "Autofocus now and Back to main"

Can someone help me out please ?

thank you for the program !
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kniffo80:
same for me on touch hd here ... :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jro2020:
9c

firstly, I like the new interface very well done.

However scan mode seems to be completely broken. Is the function that calls the camera preview a relative path? In other words do I have to have the barcorama executable in a specific directory for it to work? Reading a captured image seems to take longer than it did in 8.a but still seems reliable.

Also I forgot my password for costpad. So embarassing, can you enable a password resend option. Or is there one and I am just missing it.

Can't wait to try the submit to costpad feature! FTR running an ATT Fuze with stock rom.