plugin or api of selecting photos from camera roll in gideros

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  I guess the actual answer should come from Atilim, however my impression is that it should be a plugin, and it will be a bit convoluted: the ImagePicker returns either a UIImage (and we can't pass it to Lua directly, AFAIK) or as URL (but I'm not 100% sure Gideros can directly interpret that data as an image - it may do it though, if it doesn't rely on the extension).
  The only way I see a plugin working for sure is to pick the image and save it somewhere in JPG or PNG for Lua code to load it: but, it would be then your responsibility to keep or delete it when it's not needed anymore, as you'd actually do a copy of what's in the Camera Roll already.

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012

  As @pmanna said, it's a little bit complicated. But if someone wants to try to develop it, currently the best way is saving it as an image, create a Texture object from it and then delete the image file.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• kit2000usa Member

  March 2012

  can the ImagePicker plugin be found in giderosmobile.com??

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  I don't think it's available yet: I was planning to develop one myself, but it isn't a high priority.
  Can you wait?

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• kit2000usa Member

  March 2012

  Actually, the image picker is a key function to my app and I just switch from the buggy Corona. I have tried Gideros for a few days and feel that it is more stable and plan to continue to use it . May be I look for another framework to see any available. Thanks for your reply.

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• Zoyt Member

  March 2012

  You can load an image from a URL, but not the device yet...

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• bowerandy Guru

  April 2012

  @kit2000usa, check out this post:
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/784/ios-image-picker-plugin

  tweets: @ insidebowerhaus blog: http://bowerhaus.eu/blog/blog.html

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• Cyberience Member

  February 2013

  anything further on this?
  

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• OZApps Guru

  May 2013

  Any plug-in on the Android for the same?

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