Photo Capture tool
This software allows you to use flashplayer to capture an image with your webcam. We are using it
to test some widget and social networking spreads.
All the things are tested on Vista with Firefox. Please be sure you allow enough space for the
Camera to fit it, and enough time for it to start after access. Besides, some portable Mac users could need
to select the camera by hand, by right-clicking the flash window to open the configuration dialog and selecti the USB version (most probably).
Server based versions
The captured jpg is uploaded to a central server. Albeit that it is experimental
and we do not assure the persistence of the data, you can try to use this to share
your mood with friends.
- standard web page. No cookies, so no restore of the previous session ID. But the URL remains for some days, so you can use it as input for instance for gravatar.com.
- For Google Desktop. And its help.
- For Netvibes as UWA. Minor bug: Sometimes you must reload/refresh the whole page, when you reorder the widgets.
- For other widget toolbars, via Netvibes ecosystem.
- Untested, for igoogle via netvibes UWA. So same pros and cons, most probably.
- For igoogle pure. To be done.
- For OpenSocial apps. To be done. Really.
Stand alone versions
The captured jpg is injected into a data: source, so
no server is involved. Bad, "data: URI" only works with Firefox and perhaps Safari. Or at least, not yet with IE7.
Test versions
No export, no upload, just flash capture. Fair to test the camera and system.
binaries
Email us if you want to use (for free) the binary .swf files in your own site, for instance they could replace the "upload picture" of your phpBB site.
Code
Our own code can be asked under Mozilla license terms; again, email to al.rivero in gmail.
But for real learning, check things as
and/or google for flash webcam snapshot .