Zire7xCamera is an extension that enables your SatForms application to control the built in digital camera of the Palm Zire71 and Zire72 handhelds. The Zire7xCamera extension replaces the previous Zire71Camera extension. With Zire7xCamera your application can do all of these things without ever leaving your application:

• display live viewfinder images when you slide open the camera
• save photos to standard JPG files in the Zire7x's internal memory or an expansion card when you press the camera's shutter button
• view JPG photos captured by the Zire7x's digital camera or from other sources on your application screen, at the location you specify, scaled to the size you request, in high density (320x320 mode)
• rename, copy, downsize, and delete photos
• get information about photos including size in bytes, date, time, width and height
• store JPG photos in a SatForms binary field, and display JPG photos stored in a binary field
• obtain a list and details for all the photos listed in the Palm Photos database
• add photos you've captured to the Palm Photos database, so that they can be synced to the desktop automatically via the Palm Photos conduit
• rename and delete photos from the Palm Photos database
• downsize a photo to smaller dimensions and different JPG quality level, in order to decrease the file size

Zire7xCamera includes JPG encoding and decoding armlets (native ARM processor code) for ultra fast operation.

JPG photos stored on expansion memory cards in the Zire7x (SD or MMC cards) can be transferred to and from a PC directly through the use of a card reader attached to the PC's USB port. Photos stored in the Palm's internal memory can be synced to the desktop via the Palm Photos conduit.

DocID: 10029  DocDate: 2005-07-01