We Keep Coding

How turn On/Off android display backlight using C# only in Unity3d

Anybody knows how to turn On/Off android display backlight using C# only in Unity? I don't like plugins, and I don't want to make one of my own.
I know that you can disable the display while using the proximity sensor... but i don't know how to do it in C# in Unity3d...
Maybe the android.provider.Settings.System.SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS will help but i don't know how to change the value (1-255) in Unity3d with C#
If someone have a solution i would be very happy.
thank you
M.

i've try'ed this but i did not get any result...
public void CheckScreenBrightness()
{
using (var actClass = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer"))
{
var context = actClass.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS");
AndroidJavaClass systemGlobal = new AndroidJavaClass("android.provider.Settings$Global");
var screenbrightness = systemGlobal.CallStatic<int>("getInt", context.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getContentResolver"), "SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS");
Debug.Log("Screen Brightness = " + screenbrightness);
}
}

MOGRE 1.8.1 + WPF (C#) - Back Buffer is not valid when user changes resolution or computer goes to sleep

I'm working with MOGRE 1.8.1 to embed 3D models within a WPF application. I've run into an issue where the application crashes when the user changes resolution or their computer goes to sleep. I believe this is because the render system is trying to draw to a surface that it doesn't have access to anymore.
I'm not exactly sure what to do; I've tried using the dispose method to kill MOGRE and reboot it later (by catching the windows event), but have run into a memory leak. The pause render method included within the MOGRE library does not seem to work either. Does anyone have any ideas on how to circumvent this issue?
Notes
You can find the example I'm running here. Main difference is that I'm using the 1.8.1 .dlls instead -> http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/29190/Blend-the-OGRE-Graphics-Engine-into-your-WPF-proje , but the error is present in both.
OgreImage.cs is where the issues are happening.
Thank you for your help.

This error happen when the device is lost, so you have to add your control in the function RenderFrame()
//WallPaper, CTRL + ALT + DEL, etc
if (this.isDeviceLost)
{
//Recreate the texture render
ReInitRenderTarget();
//Restore device lost
_renderWindow._beginUpdate();
_renderWindow._endUpdate();
_reloadRenderTargetTime = -1;
this.isDeviceLost = false;
}
And this is my ReInitRenderTarget() function
protected void ReInitRenderTarget()
{
DetachRenderTarget(true, false);
DisposeRenderTarget();
_texture = TextureManager.Singleton.CreateManual(
"OgreImageSource RenderTarget",
ResourceGroupManager.DEFAULT_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME,
TextureType.TEX_TYPE_2D,
(uint)ViewportSize.Width, (uint)ViewportSize.Height,
0, Mogre.PixelFormat.PF_R8G8B8A8,
(int)TextureUsage.TU_RENDERTARGET);//, null, false, 8);
_renTarget = _texture.GetBuffer().GetRenderTarget();
_reloadRenderTargetTime = 0;
int viewportCount = ViewportDefinitions.Length;
viewports = new Viewport[viewportCount];
for (int i = 0; i < viewportCount; i++)
{
Viewport viewport;
ViewportDefinition vd = ViewportDefinitions[i];
viewport = _renTarget.AddViewport(vd.Camera, zIndexCounter++, vd.Left, vd.Top, vd.Width, vd.Height);
viewport.BackgroundColour = vd.BackgroundColour;
viewports[i] = viewport;
}
var ev = ViewportsChanged;
if (ev != null) ev();
viewportDefinitionsChanged = false;
}

Directx.Capture How to set resolution

So, I was redding a article(this one : https://dashingquill.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/capturing-webcam-using-directshow-net-library/ ) and i download it to study the code.
Im trying to implemente this changes(to make video in 1920x1080) :
capture.FrameRate = 29.997;
capture.FrameSize = new Size(1920, 1080);
capture.AudioSamplingRate = 44100;
capture.AudioSampleSize = 16;
But my ask to you is where in code do i apply this codes?
I try to apply here :
void preview()
{
try
{
capture = new Capture(filters.VideoInputDevices[0], filters.AudioInputDevices[0]);
capture.FrameRate = 29.997;
capture.FrameSize = new Size(1920, 1080);
capture.AudioSamplingRate = 44100;
capture.AudioSampleSize = 16;
capture.PreviewWindow = panel1;
but when i do that something funny happens, my video is in (1920x1080) only when i click on "stop" anything different make the preview video "weird"(not in 192x1080).
Can you help me on that?
Aa, another question. If i want to capture a sigle frame,like a picture,how can i do that with that code?
Thank you and osrry for my bad english . Its not my natural language.

I found by myself the solution.
Well, apparently what i was doing is correct, but i was running on debug mode. When a change to realese thats works fine and the framesize was set correct.

Tracking location in realtime in Windows phone 8.1

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm a beginner to windows phone 8.1 development.
I am using MapControl to display my current location on the map but as I move my position does not get updated automatically in realtime unless I click on a button and re-initialize the position of the pushpin which was earlier created. Is there a better way where this happens in the without the user having to push the button everytime he wants to see his current location.
private async Task setMyLocation()
{
try
{
var gl = new Geolocator() { DesiredAccuracy = PositionAccuracy.High };
Geoposition location = await gl.GetGeopositionAsync(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
var pin = new MapIcon()
{
Location = location.Coordinate.Point,
Title = "You are here",
NormalizedAnchorPoint = new Point() { X = 0, Y = 0 },
};
myMapView.MapElements.Add(pin);
await myMapView.TrySetViewAsync(location.Coordinate.Point, 20);
}
catch
{
myMapView.Center = new Geopoint(App.centerPin);
myMapView.ZoomLevel = 20;
Debug.WriteLine("GPS NOT FOUND");
}
App.centerPin = myMapView.Center.Position;
}
Thanks in Advance!

Rather than running a timer and polling, handle the Geolocator.PositionChanged event. This will fire each time the position changes and will be significantly more efficient.
You can set the Geolocator.MovementThreshold property so it will only fire if the user has moved a given distance and not do anything if the user stands in the same place. The threshold you pick will probably depend on how far your map is zoomed in.

The way I would do it is to put a Timer that requests information from the server at a given interval.
Take a look onto this answer containing a code snippet : Stackoverflow answer

Motion Detection

I really cannot get my head around this, so I hope that someone can give me a little hand ^^
I'm trying to detect motion in C# via my webcam.
So far I've tried multiple libraries (AForge Lib), but failed because I did not understand how to use it.
At first I just wanted to compare the pixels from the current frame with the last one, but that turned out to work like utter s**t :I
Right now, my webcam runs an event "webcam_ImageCaptured" every time the picture from the webcam, which is like 5-10 fps.
But I cannot find a simple way to get the difference from the two images, or at least something that works decent.
Has anybody got an idea on how I could do this rather simple (as possible as that is)?

Getting motion detection to work using the libraries you mention is trivial. Following is an AForge (version 2.2.4) example. It works on a video file but you can easily adapt it to the webcam event.
Johannes' is right but I think playing around with these libraries eases the way to understanding basic image processing.
My application processes 720p video at 120FPS on a very fast machine with SSDs and around 50FPS on my development laptop.
public static void Main()
{
float motionLevel = 0F;
System.Drawing.Bitmap bitmap = null;
AForge.Vision.Motion.MotionDetector motionDetector = null;
AForge.Video.FFMPEG.VideoFileReader reader = new AForge.Video.FFMPEG.VideoFileReader();
motionDetector = GetDefaultMotionDetector();
reader.Open(#"C:\Temp.wmv");
while (true)
{
bitmap = reader.ReadVideoFrame();
if (bitmap == null) break;
// motionLevel will indicate the amount of motion as a percentage.
motionLevel = motionDetector.ProcessFrame(bitmap);
// You can also access the detected motion blobs as follows:
// ((AForge.Vision.Motion.BlobCountingObjectsProcessing) motionDetector.Processor).ObjectRectangles [i]...
}
reader.Close();
}
// Play around with this function to tweak results.
public static AForge.Vision.Motion.MotionDetector GetDefaultMotionDetector ()
{
AForge.Vision.Motion.IMotionDetector detector = null;
AForge.Vision.Motion.IMotionProcessing processor = null;
AForge.Vision.Motion.MotionDetector motionDetector = null;
//detector = new AForge.Vision.Motion.TwoFramesDifferenceDetector()
//{
// DifferenceThreshold = 15,
// SuppressNoise = true
//};
//detector = new AForge.Vision.Motion.CustomFrameDifferenceDetector()
//{
// DifferenceThreshold = 15,
// KeepObjectsEdges = true,
// SuppressNoise = true
//};
detector = new AForge.Vision.Motion.SimpleBackgroundModelingDetector()
{
DifferenceThreshold = 10,
FramesPerBackgroundUpdate = 10,
KeepObjectsEdges = true,
MillisecondsPerBackgroundUpdate = 0,
SuppressNoise = true
};
//processor = new AForge.Vision.Motion.GridMotionAreaProcessing()
//{
// HighlightColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red,
// HighlightMotionGrid = true,
// GridWidth = 100,
// GridHeight = 100,
// MotionAmountToHighlight = 100F
//};
processor = new AForge.Vision.Motion.BlobCountingObjectsProcessing()
{
HighlightColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red,
HighlightMotionRegions = true,
MinObjectsHeight = 10,
MinObjectsWidth = 10
};
motionDetector = new AForge.Vision.Motion.MotionDetector(detector, processor);
return (motionDetector);
}

Motion detection is a complex matter, and it requires a lot of computing power.
Try to limit what you want to detect first. With increasing complexity: Do your want to detect whether there is motion or not? Do you want to detect how much motion? Do you want to detect which areas of the image are actually moving?
I assume you just want to know when something changed:
subtract adjacent frames from each other
calc the sum of all squares of all pixel differences
divide by number of pixels
watch the number for your webcam stream. It will have a certain ground noise and will significantly go up when something moves.
try to limit to a certain color channel only, this may improve things