Archived:V2 Camera observer not supported in S60 3rd Edition (Known Issue)

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Thanks a lot! I had already lost a week with the bogus documentation.

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MCameraObserver2 mixin class for Camera API clients is not supported in S60 3rd Edition.

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition
S60 3rd Edition, FP1

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Created: User:Technical writer 1 (21 Aug 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (21 Jun 2012)

Description

Onboard Camera API on S60 3rd Edition provides two versions of the camera observer interface class, MCameraObserver and MCameraObserver2.

SDK documentation on the Onboard Camera API states that the new MCameraObserver2 class should be preferred over MCameraObserver. However, MCameraObserver2 is not yet supported on S60 platform.

How to reproduce

Trying to construct a new CCamera instance:

static IMPORT_C CCamera *NewL(MCameraObserver2 &aObserver, TInt aCameraIndex, TInt aPriority);

This will not cause a leave, but the returned pointer will be NULL.

Solution

Use the MCameraObserver class with Onboard Camera API on S60 3rd Edition (3.0) and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 devices.

Version 2 of the Onboard Camera API is supported from S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 onwards.