Webcam module is working perfectly, but a small addition might improve it.

Currently we have to specify the name of the image file (online or offline). The suggestion is to specify only a directory, where all the images coming from the webcam are stored. The online/offline image would then be taken as the most recent image file in the directory.

At the moment I am doing this manually with a shell script that continously executes the following command

cp `ls -t -1 *.jpg|head -n 1` last.jpg

Having this integrated in the module would be a nice feature :) Cheers,

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Flow@www.my-flow.com commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Flow@www.my-flow.com
Status: Active » Postponed

That's a great idea! The feature could be implemented exactly as you described it and might be pretty useful when archiving individual timestamp named images.

Unfortunately I'm not able to do it right now as for my MacBook there is no working version of the phpeclipse plugin for eclipse 3.2 available yet.

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Flow@www.my-flow.com commented
Title: Automatic pull of most recent image » Automatic pull of recent image
Status: Postponed » Closed (works as designed)

I gave it a try and implemented it. If you want, you can download the cvs version and see if it's as you suggested and if it works as expected. My intention was to make it compatible with the former version.

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