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authorDmytro Poplavskiy <dmytro.poplavskiy@nokia.com>2012-03-12 13:27:42 +1000
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>2012-03-12 07:36:06 +0100
commita15b9d3ce88037c973f868fdf6959eea4e157f68 (patch)
treeea55ab6234609d50d05eaa1deb74d82c64e6c30d /src/multimedia/camera
parent2b73f92a7ff0068ebb9453f5fdb09305a2561799 (diff)
QCamera capture documentation fixes
Added documentation for camera capture queue behavior. Change-Id: I4989f94c5de0edb3ac99135dcb3e11d76195a880 Reviewed-by: Michael Goddard <michael.goddard@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/multimedia/camera')
-rw-r--r--src/multimedia/camera/qcameraimagecapture.cpp13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/multimedia/camera/qcameraimagecapture.cpp b/src/multimedia/camera/qcameraimagecapture.cpp
index 0754963ae..fd516c0e4 100644
--- a/src/multimedia/camera/qcameraimagecapture.cpp
+++ b/src/multimedia/camera/qcameraimagecapture.cpp
@@ -493,6 +493,12 @@ void QCameraImageCapture::setCaptureDestination(QCameraImageCapture::CaptureDest
/*!
\property QCameraImageCapture::readyForCapture
Indicates the service is ready to capture a an image immediately.
+
+ It's permissible to call capture() while the camera status is QCamera::ActiveStatus
+ regardless of isReadyForCapture property value.
+ If camera is not ready to capture image immediately,
+ the capture request is queued with all the related camera settings
+ to be executed as soon as possible.
*/
bool QCameraImageCapture::isReadyForCapture() const
@@ -513,7 +519,8 @@ bool QCameraImageCapture::isReadyForCapture() const
/*!
Capture the image and save it to \a file.
This operation is asynchronous in majority of cases,
- followed by signals QCameraImageCapture::imageCaptured(), QCameraImageCapture::imageSaved()
+ followed by signals QCameraImageCapture::imageExposed(),
+ QCameraImageCapture::imageCaptured(), QCameraImageCapture::imageSaved()
or QCameraImageCapture::error().
If an empty \a file is passed, the camera backend choses
@@ -521,6 +528,10 @@ bool QCameraImageCapture::isReadyForCapture() const
if only file name without full path is specified, the image will be saved to
the default directory, with a full path reported with imageCaptured() and imageSaved() signals.
+ QCamera saves all the capture parameters like exposure settings or
+ image processing parameters, so changes to camera paramaters after
+ capture() is called do not affect previous capture requests.
+
QCameraImageCapture::capture returns the capture Id parameter, used with
imageExposed(), imageCaptured() and imageSaved() signals.
*/