Camera/Scanner Screen Auto Rotates

[wjchristenson2]

I updated our BarcodeScanner plugin today and discovered that the camera/scanner now auto rotates its orientation. This is a game breaker for situations when you can't rotate the barcode to conform to the camera's orientation. Think of a car door where the VIN barcode is vertical... You can't rip off the door and rotate it...

If this is not an issue, does anyone know of a parameter or setting that can be used to lock in the current orientation or specify one?

Thanks

[Dbuggerx]

Are you using Android or iOS?

[wjchristenson2]

Was testing on an Android LG G3.

[davorpeic]

How did you managed to get auto rotate? I installed today the plugin and need scanner to auto rotate but it doesn't :) using on ios 8.1

edit: ok I enabled autorotate inside the plugin so now its half working.

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[gkorland]

@davorpeic how did you enable it?

[leibale]

+1

[davorpeic]

Hey @gkorland I opened plugin file and enabled shouldAutorotate in here https://github.com/wildabeast/BarcodeScanner/blob/master/src/ios/CDVBarcodeScanner.mm#L991 you can change this in plugin folder, so your each build have corrected version.

I also needed for my plugin to start in landscape so I replaced all Portrait defined params (like in lines from 996-1005) to say Landscape or LandscapeRight, it worked, but it was starting always in oposite orientation, I guess best solution would be to define starting orientation according to Status bar position (but I'm not that into objective-c to be able to fix it.)

At the end, this plugin needs some serious maintenance, and it was to buggy for my needs, and as I need only to scan QR codes, I installed this plugin https://github.com/tjwoon/csZBar (just for the ios for the moment) and it's working as a charm.

gl,
davor