[Announce/Testing] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

Update July 10th 2012: I have included in 0.0.2-2 everything needed that wasn't installed by default in the N9/N950 phones, so it should now work on any of those - tested with PR1.2
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I have succeeded to port my Magnus Plus Photo magnifier app from N900 (the thread is here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=77023 ) to N950 (and it should work on N9 as well).

On short, there are two little apps in a single package, each with its own icon, that you find on the phone's launcher screen (the one with the apps icons) after installing the package.

1) Magnus Plus Magnifier magnifies, something that the included camera application can do sometimes, just that Magnus Plus is optimized for focusing at close distance and just handier. As opposed to the N900 version, here it has continuous auto-focus.
The working distance is about 10cm.

2) Magnus Plus Negative Viewer, which is the same but with an extra filter that inverts the video stream. This makes it useful for examining photographic negatives and for funny applications (try to see how your fingers look on the negative!).

The resulting package can be downloaded here: harmattan/magnusplus_0.0.2-2_armel.deb

The source is here.

I would really appreciate your feedback:
- Can you install it now from the deb I've provided? You may have to enable installing from non-store sources (in settings/applications/installations)
- Does it work for you?

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

thanks it's great and working . But the only thing is that grey bar down

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

Nice!

Can you please upload it to the apps.formeego.com repositories?

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

I cannot install it. Some missing dependencies.

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

Same for me, I'm on PR 1.1!

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

I'm not sure I understand your comment. Did you try to point the camera for example to a computer screen? You should see something on the phone's screen, if you wait a second or two with the phone at about 10 cm from the target (such that the auto-focus has time to act).
If you on the other hand refer to the "almost-full-screen" layout, that's the best I could get so far, it's not far from ideal.

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

I will try. For now the custom gstreamer video filter I use compiles only in the context of gstreamer-plugins-good, so I will have to clean this up first.

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

I think the missing dependency on yours is gstreamer-tools (please confirm). This can be installed from this repository:
deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

For you as well, I think the missing dependency on yours is gstreamer-tools (please confirm). This and its dependencies can be installed from this repository:
deb http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/ harmattan/sdk free non-free

Re: [Announce] Magnifier App for N9/N950 - Magnus Plus
 

I've added the repo via MeeCatalog, but I can't find gstreamer-tools in it...