(keitai-l) Re: Moblog Appli

Hi Sam,

To select a different picture size:

1. get the available sizes using 
   getAvailablePictureSizes() 

2. set one of the possible sizes using
   setImageSize(int width, int height) 

typically you have around 5 different sizes.

Cheers,
Reto


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:05:35 +0900
Sam Joseph <gaijin@yha.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Right so I finally got my moblog appli to work - I can now post blog 
> articles including photos from my Sharp 505.  There is one setback at 
> the moment, which is that the 505 is limited to 10240bytes in its POSTs, 
> and the resolution on the phone camera is so high, that the base64 
> encoding of the photo can't fit in the POST.
> 
> see http://www.neurogrid.net/sam/
> 
> With the XML POST I have 7970 bytes spare for the photo, which on my 
> 505, often seems to exceed that limit.
> 
> So what I'm hoping you bloggers and keitai-erscan help me with is some 
> cunning way to get round this. I've tried telling the camera to produce 
> a smaller image, or one of lower quality to reduce the size, but have 
> been roundly ignored, i.e. I tried this:
> 
>         camera.setImageSize(width-100, height-100);
>         camera.setAttribute(Camera.DEV_QUALITY, Camera.ATTR_QUALITY_LOW );
> 
> but the images coming back from the camera are just the same size.
> I've tried writing to the output buffer in chunks during posting, but 
> there seems to be a strict 10240 byte limit on the outgoing post.  
> 
> I can't see any easy way to compress the photo or spread it over two 
> posts .... hmm that makes me think I could send the image in parts and 
> then reassemble using cunning html hmm ....
> 
> Well, there are other options such as sending the image binary instead 
> of base 64 - but that's probably out given we have to transfer over HTTP 
> - I mean I could have some script on the server that would take incoming 
> byte streams, but the doja HTTP POST might not like it - or even I could 
> switch to something more compact like base128 ....?
> 
> Anyway, I'd very much appreciate any ideas on this matter.
> 
> I'm planning to release both moblog appli and code as soon as I can make 
> the user experience something less than "intensely annoying".
> 
> CHEERS> SAM
> 
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