Comments on: Custom video/camera overlay view on the iPhone

By: links for 2010-07-28 | Alones world

links for 2010-07-28 | Alones world — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:33:35 +0000

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By: anka_

anka_ — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:55:40 +0000

Hi,
The UIButton is a subclass of UIControl, so you can use the method addTarget:action:forControlEvents: (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIControl_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIControl/addTarget:action:forControlEvents:) to add any action you want.

Example:
…
//your close action method
- (void) close:(id)sender
{
//just close the modal view
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

…
//create your UIButton (i call it closeButton) and add it to your overlay view
…
//set target action of you button
[closeButton addTarget:self action:@selector(close:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
….

After that the method "close" is called when you touch your close button.

Cheers,
Andreas

By: _feDe_

_feDe_ — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:53:40 +0000

So… how do you actually do something with the button, and then close the modal?

By: anka_

anka_ — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:55:07 +0000

Hi,

sure you can. I will publish examples of this blog on github now.
Find this example athttp://github.com/anka/bw_examples .

Cheers,
Andreas

By: Abe

Abe — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:52:55 +0000

can we pleeease have the source code… please?

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Hi there, do you have the source code for this project. I'm struggling to get it to work. Would be much appreciated.

Regards

Andy

By: anka_

anka_ — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:33:59 +0000

Hi guys,

So as I found out, video is only supported in full-screen mode and there is no way to show a video within a small area at the current screen. You can change the background color of the screen when the video is smaller than the whole screen, but this sadly wont be any helpful in your case.

Cheers,
Andreas

By: Frankie

Frankie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:03:11 +0000

I would like to know if that is possible as well

By: TechIT

TechIT — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:26:34 +0000

Hi,
Can I overlay a video over the device's camera feed? That is, my application should start the device's camera and overlay another video (recorded earlier, or any simple movie file) onto this video, as a small window in the center.

Please help me with this.

By: anka_

anka_ — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:17:39 +0000

Hi Raj,

I consulted the iPhone OS Reference Library once again and found out, that it isn't possible to record videos if you are hiding the default camera controls ("Hiding the default camera controls limits you to taking still pictures only, regardless of whether movie capture is available on the device"). So you have to set "showsCameraControls = YES" to get the standard video controls. Sadly this is a weird restriction at the moment and I hope they will change this soon.

Cheers, Andreas