Mobile library for barcodes?

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Wed Feb 1 06:47:11 EST 2017


No worries, Mike.  Someday perhaps a widget for every platform will
eMERGE.  /see what I did there.  :)

On Jan 31, 2017 10:03 PM, "Mike Kerner via use-livecode" <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Roger, I agree.  I was not aware, until you mentioned it, this evening,
> that zx ran on android.  If that is the case, and mergAV does not, then of
> course it should not be deprecated, at least on Android.  On iOS, it is not
> as useful for barcode scanning and recognition as mergAV is.  Anyway,
> Jonathan, you would need mergAV to tell the camera to capture the image (on
> ios), so I am not sure why you would then have a separate JS library
> attempt to read it, since AV also includes a BC interpretation component.
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > When a question about what's available for "mobile" is raised, I always
> > read it as "android, iOS, and maybe even Windows-mobile".  I never
> > purchaced the full merg-suite because it doesn't fully support all of
> > LiveCodes mobile platforms.  I do have mergZXing because it works on
> > Android.  It shouldn't be deprecated unless there is an x-plat
> replacement.
> >
> > ~Roger
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2017 5:48 PM, "Mike Kerner via use-livecode" <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > See my email.  mergAV is choice #1 for reading.  mergZX reads, but is
> not
> > > as advanced as mergAV and really should be deprecated because it does
> not
> > > have any features that mergAV does not have.  It just uses a different
> > code
> > > base.
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