yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jbarico:
Omnia i910

Has anyone gotten this to work with the Samsung Omnia i910 (Verizon)?? I keep getting "No barcode." This could be operator error I'm pretty new to this whole smartphone thing. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Got it to work using the 1280 x 960 resolution in "portrait mode". Thanks!!! (The omnia doesn't have portrait but if you hold the camera like you were using portrait it works.)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] theyankees:
Barcorama Help

I installed .net Compact Framework 3.5 but still no success.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] theyankees:
Barcorama Help

Now I get this error:

Barcorama.exe

notsupportedexception

at Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InitInstance()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control..ctor()

at System.Windows.Forms.Button..ctor()

at BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL.InitializeComponent()

at BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL..ctor()

at BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL.Main()
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] theyankees:
Barcorama

Also when I try to open the .exe file on my computer I get an error.

This is the error:

EventType : clr20r3 P1 : barcorama.exe P2 : 0.0.0.0 P3 : 47cba7c3

P4 : cam P5 : 0.0.0.0 P6 : 47cba7c3 P7 : 68 P8 : 0

P9 : system.io.filenotfoundexception
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Alex2128:
I think there are 2 things that could make this software totally amazing.

1. make a choice of browsers. I would prefer to use opera.

2. Instead of doing a google web search, do a froogle search. Its still by google, but it will be specifically for products, and it displays prices.

Thanks, this app is awesome.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Magicdead:
I googled a little and looks like Barcorama is using a control (maybe a button or something like that) that's not supported on your branch of Windows Mobile.

Theres 3 different flavours of Windows CE: WM Classic, WM Standard and WM Professional, and they all support different things. For instance WM Standard doesn't support buttons, but the other two do.

But other than that, i guess you'll have to wait till hypest is online to help you

Uhm you haven't really read this thread right? Or bothered to check the Settings tab of barcorama?

You CAN use another browser and you CAN change the website to froogle.

Just change the run path in the settings to OperaLE.exe and the arguments to the froogle search url
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Neoptolemus:
Thanks

I am loving this program. Thanks a bunch.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] highway:
Apps

I've developed 2 apps for barcorama.

1) Barcorama Frontend

2) Barcode Price List

The development time was short so the interface is not so pretty but must be bug free. They were developed for my own needs but I would like to post them for anyone who find them useful. They where tested on TyTN II and Device Emulator for QVGA but it must be ok for VGA screens too. They get installed on internal memory but they are extremely small (87KB and 95KB)

If you have suggestions so we can make them useful for others too, please send me suggestions. I do not have much free time but I will try to do my best.

1) Barcorama Frontend

This app acts as a frontend for Barcorama application. You can set Barcorama to load this app and pass the barcode as an argument

You have 3 choices (3 image buttons). a) to load Barcode Price List b) load google c) to load Mobile barcode Search Page from which you can load any of this pages: Froogle, FastPriceCheck, Amazon, PriceGrabber, Google, UPC Database, SNX, CheckUPC

In every choice the barcode is passed.

There is a settings file where you can change what is executed for each of the 3 image buttons. What you cannot do yet is to change the pictures. And you can set the app to close automatically when a selection is made. The barcode in the argument is passed the same way as in barcorama (!###!)

2) Barcode Price List

The idea behind this app is to keep a list (database) of barcodes, their prices, the source (where the barcode what read), and the datetime.

You see, I want to compare prices of same products between different sellers, mostly supermarkets. These are the sources.

When the app is laoded and the barcode is passed as an argument you have just to imput the price and the source. When you press OK is is saved in the database (textfile barcodepricelist.txt in CSV format). You can load this file in excel for further processing. If you want to add a source just type it in the combobox and you will be prompted to confirm and add it to the sources.

You can delete barcodes from the database or clear the whole database. If you delete the text file it's just like clearing the database.

That's all for now

02/01/2009: Working on a new version that's very customizable so it will fit everyone's needs. I will post soon.

09/01/2009: The New versions are in post 305
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveNagy:
EDIT: I uninstalled and then re-installed to the Diamond's device memory. (As opposed to its "Internal Storage".) The program seems to be working fine now.

Nice program, although it's not quite working for me.

I have a Sprint Touch Diamond. I'm running one of Juicy's custom ROMs, which does include .NET Framework 3.5. I installed Barcorama to the Diamond's so-called "internal storage", rather than to root.

The photo-taking and analysis parts seem to be working flawlessly. The correct number is displayed, and I'm asked whether I wish to run the external program. When I tell it yes, I get an error stating:

Ooops!

The following exception

occurred trying to run

extrnal[sic] program:

Win32Exception​

I tried pointing it to both SkyFire and Opera, but get the same error in both cases. The following is my current settings.txt:

CODE128=TRUE

CODE39=TRUE

EAN13=TRUE

EAN8=TRUE

UPCA=TRUE

UPCE=TRUE

QR=TRUE

AUTORETURNFROMCAPTURE=TRUE

LARGEICONS=TRUE

ENABLERUN=TRUE

ASKTORUN=TRUE

CLIPBOARDCOPY=TRUE

RUN=\windows\OperaL.exe

RUNARGS=http://www.fastpricecheck.com/GetData/HTML/!###!​

Note that I have set LARGEICONS=TRUE. Perhaps that was ill advised.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] McHale:
You have done amazing work on this app. Got it working first try today on my Fuze with no hassle or issues. Using FASTPRICECHECK as the web address to search. The only issues I have is the success rate of recognizing the barcode. But when it works, it's fantastic.

Thanks and great job...

-Mc
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thorkon:
looking forward to this will be checking back for when your complete so I can try it out!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iTouch24:
i am trying to get app to run pricegrabber on launch but it isnt working... is this the correct url to add in settings..?

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search.php?form_keyword=!###!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jexor:
OK complete N00B here :)

i would love to have an app like this for my Herald (tmob wing) so I snagged this. It doesn't work, it crashes after I load the pic. Is that because I did something wrong or does this just not work for the Herald? In either case is their something you can refer me to for help

Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Dikcd:
isbn

Hello Highway, I test Barcorama on Htc HD and runs. I suggest rethis read this http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Coding4FunHardwareBoneyardUsingTheCueCatWithNET.aspx You can add a translator for ISBN and run in amazon. It seems that all books begining with code "978..."

Thanks, good job.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] purdue89:
This app works perfect on my HTC Touch Pro.. I don't think it's quite VGA compatible because the screen is a little misaligned when you go to the settings. Any changes coming to make this program VGA compatible?... Also, I changed the search string so that it uses fastpricecheck.com instead of google.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iTouch24:
whats the correct way to change what program u use to search... can u type exactly what u typed in settings... thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] purdue89:
Go to post #4 on the following PPCGeeks.com link, in summary in the settings the link is a text box, just place your cursor there and type in the address you want to use. If you want to use fast price check then change it to http://www.fastpricecheck.com/GetData/HTML/!###!

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=44241&highlight=barcode+scanner
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thorkon:
Bah can someone post the string for it to open IE or opera? I accidentally adjusted it and now I'm getting a win32 exception error after It reads the barcode. It is appreciated if someone could help me out.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] highway:
BarcoramaFrontend and Barcode Price List

I'm ready with the new versions of "BarcoramaFrontend" and "Barcode Price List". I just want to test them myself, prepare some instructions and then release them.

The Barcode Price List acts as a database which you can search and not like an text file export for excel as in the previous version.

For now BarcoramaFrontend supports 3 image buttons. I think it's enough. Especially for QVGA screens like mine. But I can easily make it support as many image buttons as you specify in the settings.txt file. For VGA screens that would make some sense.

I've not done it because in that case you will have to specify position(x,y) and height and width for each image to have it displayed where you want.

With this version with the 3 image buttons you can specify position etc. but if you don't then the predefined buttons are used and you have only to provide 3 images with 2.4:1 apsect ratio and it will be stretched to fit (example google.jpg 240x100 pixels), the app and the argument like in barcorama. So it's more easy for users that don't want to do much work with the settings file.

I would like to hear opinions from you about that so I can make it work for what people want most.

@Dikcd, the Barcorama app is developed from hypest. So, our thanks to him.

Happy new year.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jro2020:
Not to be a complete idiot, I hope, but where will we get "BarcoramaFrontend" and "Barcode Price List" when you do release them. It says new versions but I have never, to my knowledge, found the old versions. Though I have been looking for a few days.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hotmail:
See post 288.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thierryb:
I got this issue when I tried to shot with my xda flame. Anything to do to make it running except changing of device?

Barcorama.exe

InvalidOperationException

An unknown error occurred.

à Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms.CameraCaptureDialog.LaunchCameraCaptureDialog()

à Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms.CameraCaptureDialog.ShowDialog()

at BackgroundDialoger.BackgroundCameraDialog()
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] highway:
Sorry @jro2020. I removed them from the old post because of the major changes I'm developing.

Also I used another cab manager so that you can install on memory or on storage card. And now with the new cab manager I did some changes so that the apps are also easily upgradeable. If you would use the old ones then after upgrading you would loose your data. That's all the reasons I removed them so that people can start from a good version and can upgrade.

I'm currently testing and changing somethings especially in the Barcode Price List and I will be posting very soon
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thorkon:
can someone post what I need to pu in the upper bar in the setup options to get IE or Opera to run? I accidentally deleted a character somewhere and it won't open either browser as I don't know the command to type in. It's located above where you would change what site it checks.

Thanks for anyone who looks and post it for me!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Dadaism:
The programm doesnt work with WVGA (460x800), does it?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] highway:
it does. i developed it on my tytn ii but tested it also on a htc hd.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Dadaism:
I meant the main barcorama programm.

The pictures i take with the camera appear strechted on the screen and barcorama hasn't detected any single barcode.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jro2020:
this is my point exactly, nothing downloadable there just a few screenshots to look at. on the other hand 305 has em.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
fellow posters,

I've updated the first page, adding a newer version of Barcorama. I've made some progress tweaking the Autofocus capability of my Kaiser's camera. This enabled me to re-introduce the "Live" mode that existed in the early version of Barcorama, but dropped since the low resolution of the DirectShow capture was not enough for barcode recognition.

Give it a try but keep in mind, this will certainly not work on every device or ROM...

have fun,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] McHale:
new version is working well. The only thing I see as an addition is the automatic removal of old UPC pictures. My thoughts:

1. Have the picture be named exactly the same every time so it overwrites the last one taken.

2. The setting where it stores the last X pictures and you can set X to be any number you want.

3. Save pictures for the last X days.

The pictures should probably be stored in a subfolder...

Thanks again for the great software...

-Mc
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
thanx for your feedback McHale!

Are you sure there is autoremoval? I haven't implemented this option yet... The "Live" mode only "keeps" two shots (found under \Temp).

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] McHale:
sorry I didn't make it clear. That was my request. :)

I'll give "live" a try.

Thanks again. This is working great...

-Mc
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jro2020:
grrrrr it just keeps giving me some bull about application failing to install because it is not digitally signed. same message on Fuze, and Hermes.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] WizardN00b:
HTC Wizard, WM5

I open the app and press start and I get the following error:

IOException

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor()

at

BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL.timer1_Tick()

(and many more errors)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
Im running it in germany on a german Samsung Omnia and it works perfect. But what to do with the barcode? :D

Greets from germany

Daniel
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
hey Daniel,

thanx for the feedback!

can I ask you some questions?

1. Are you using the "Live scan" mode? (not enabled by default)

2. Are you using the "Autofocus" hack? (not enabled by default)

3. If "yes" in 2, have you tried without it?

I'm very interested in how Barcorama performs on the Omnia! The omnia is reported to provide higher-resolution feed via Directshow, than the HTC devices!

thank you in advance,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
Hi Hypest,

Live scan and Autofocus do not work. Both are killing your program.

Is there anything i could test for you?

EDIT: my fault. Autofocus is working. Livescan is killing the app.

i tried both together: not working.

than i deactivated autofocus: still not working.

I have not tried autofocus only. Now i had: working :)

Short summary:

Barcorama without changing any setting: works perfectly.

Barcorama with autofocus: works perfectly.

Barcorama with livescan: not working.

on Samsung Omnia with Windows Mobile 6.1
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
hey LgmDan,

I was hoping Livescan to work on the Omnia :(

"Autofocus" actually works in conjunction with Livescan, so it is not affecting anything.

Anyway, if you could gather the exception details when Livescan is ON, you could help me find what's wrong :)

Additionally, can you also try Livescan with the attached .exe? Download the zip, unzip it and replace the installed Barcorama.exe

thank you,

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
Barcorama.exe

OutofMemoryException

bei

Microsoft-AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAR(

)

bei System.Drawing.Bitmap._InitFromMemoryStream()

bei System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor()

bei

BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL.timer1_Tick()

bei

System.Windows.Forms.Timer._WnProc()

bei

System.Windows.Forms.ApplicationThreadContext._InternalContextMessages()

bei

Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterModalDialog()

bei

System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()

bei

BarcoramaNS.BarcoramaCL.Main()

Your new Version starts with "LiveScanning" but hangs at "Please wait" while trying to start the camera mode. No errors, just "Please wait". I can quit with "ok"
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
please LgmDan,

can you try this also?

ps. Sorry to make you a "remote debugger". I wish I had an Omnia available to test it on my own :(

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
Yes, the Omnia is a very great product. You´re making a good piece of software, therefore i´m glad to help you out a little bit!

Same problem with your newest version. "Please wait" after clicking Start.

Without LiveScanning, it works just perfectly.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
OK LgmDan,

thanks for your help and your kind words.

I'll have to study some more for this issue...

good afternoon ;)

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
You´re welcome. I put this thread into my watchlist.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] WizardN00b:
That's what my problem was I discovered.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] papamopps:
I couldn´t install 8a.cab on HTC Herald...

But funny app.

AND the QR Code i Generated had more than it schows after transcoding....only 2 lines are shown..don´t know if that was mentioned....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mknewman:
T-Mobile Dash not working

Windows Mobile 6.0, TMo Dash, getting a 'Not supported' error.

Marc
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Kerensky97:
I have a feature request I haven't seen mentioned here.

I notice that Barcorama also does a great job scanning 2D barcodes which is nice since it works better than i-nigma for VGA phones with autofocus.

The problem is that when you scan a 2D barcode it enters the web address into the search field for the chosen barcode search tool. Would it be possible to program Barcorama to treat 2D barcodes differently? Perhaps program it so that when it finds a barcode that starts with http://, that is input that into the browser address field rather than into a website search bar?

It's not as common in the US yet but in Japan and Sweden QR codes are common ways for people to scan a code on an ad and have their phone's browser take them there.

http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/

http://avexnet.jp/

Some more familiar places are getting in the act:

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/get-i-nigma-barcode-reader-v1-4.html

Some people get crazy with it:

http://www.conspirare.se/blog/?page_id=386
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
fellow posters, can you try installing this cab instead?

thanx,

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

for my problem, it´s the same ;)

Greets

Dan

This appears when closing the "please wait" screen:

0xc0000005

at 0x0070006c

Read: 0x0070006c
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
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
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] LgmDan:
I think you know, that nothing changed for my omnia? ;)

Greetings from Germany

Dan
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hypest:
yes :D

hypest
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] megatec45:
The program runs fine if I do not enable The Live Scanning and Auto Focus.

The Live scanning places a red bar across my screen(see Screen Shot)

The Auto focus seems to compress the image somewhat, but can read the barcode. With both options on, the red bar is still there as well.

Also get error message with live scan - Unable to initialize Camer. Failed to set up the camera device. This occurs after pressing camera button. Does not recognize barcode in live scan.

I'm using a ATT/Tilt with OEM WM6.1

Sorry for all the edits, I want to give you as much info as possible.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hotmail:
I'm using 0.8a on a Hermes. LiveScan works really quick and even in relatively poor light (low contrast). Only issue is that it doesn't "give up the camera" after scanning. It just says "Please Wait..." in green text at the top of the application. Also the screen stays bright and subsequent scan attempts say the camera is in use. It's necessary to exit the application to free up the camera again.

With LiveScan disabled, it doesn't "Automatically return from capture". It's necessary to back out of the cameras preview of the barcode and then Barcorama says "No capture!" in green text at the top of the application. It does however save the image, and it's possible to read the code by opening the saved image file from the camera. It also DOES give up the camera after use, and going back into Barcorama.

Hope this helps you debug a little.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zippyioa:
I tried 0.8a for the first time last night on my UK T-Mobile MDA Vario III.

I am currently running PDACornerUltimate.V16-21109|HTCCA D3D|M2D+NonM2D+Lite|New Improvements.

Camera version is 5.04 (Build 31875)

When I run Barcorama I can take a nice clear photo,but then it goes back to the interface and says please wait for ages before returning the message "no barcode"

After trying several times with no success on the default settings I tried to enable Live Scanning (with and without autofocus), but as soon as I click start I get an error message:

I THINK IT SAYS

Debug assertion failed!

Then text showing where the program is installed (I have tried phone memory and Storage Card)

I can make out something about Line = 154 Expression = p!=0 - NOT SURE ON THIS!

Press retry to debug

I would post it in full but it disappears way too quickly to read properly or to screenshot.

In desperation I also tried 08c pre and pre2 but got the same problems!

I hope you can help as this program looks great in principal.

Thanks

Zippyioa
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bobzero:
anyone had luck using this on a Vogue? which has a 2mp camera?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jlee79:
HTC Touch Pro Resolution Setting problem

I am trying to use this on my Sprint HTC Touch Pro. It works every once and a while but for some reason the default camera settings while in the Barcorama program is a resolution of 640x480 and it will not let me change it at all. When I close out the program and just go over to my camera application the default is 3 MP. Does anyone know how to change the camera setting once the Barcorama program is running? Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] js349:
Anyone been able to use this on a Mogul (6800)? I've tried different versions and none work for me. The camera opens and it looks like it has a memory error and then closes.