FIRST OF ALL, did you read all of my Sony Ericsson P900 notes?

Quick notes:

YAY! 512 downloads in July 2004 and 344 in August and 273 in September... :-)

This is my first released P900 software (click here for other P900 downloads). I wrote it because I did want to see a "full screen viewfinder".

The software itself is based on some BUGS of the standard SonyEricsson ecam.lib library (at least in the R1A release of CDA/organiser firmware). Playing a bit around with these bugs, I eventually found a dirty hack to get a "full screen viewfinder" (it's actually a shot without the direct-screen viewfinder hanging around).

Since it's based on other people bugs I cannot guarantee it will run on any P900. But it was just too nice to have it only on my P900, so I released it as freeware - enjoy it! It does not feature anything except the continuous shooting routine.

• If you rotate up/down the jog-dial, it will select maximum and minimum contrast settings; pressing the jog-dial will reset contrast to default setting; pressing back the jog-dial exits the program.
  
  
• Yes, the camera shoots slowly (about 0.8 frames per second).
  
  
• No, I don't plan a P800 release (it shouldn't need too much work, though; change a bitmap format from 64K to 4K colors and little things like that).
  
  
• Yes, that coffee pot is a true Neapolitan coffee pot, for strong black coffee (Italian style).
  
  
• No, I don't know how to do to add photo functions in AppForge programs, and I don't have much spare time to explain how to add photo functions in your C++ software.
  
  
• No, it doesn't shoot photos (it shouldn't need much work, though). You already have the great CommuniCorder software in your P900.

  Cheat mode: if you installed a screen-capture software like Yipton's SCap, then you can capture and save a screen image soon after it was shot...:-)

This software has an official UID assigned to me from EPOC UID Number Allocation Service at Symbian on 2004-Feb-11.

Sources: extract with tar xpjvf - the included Makefile is good for P900 UIQ SDK for Linux; if you want to compile them in a Windows environment, you will need to change a few things (but, please, don't ask me for them).

I am still experimenting; I hope to get to a clean solution and write a software that analyzes real-time the data captured by the camera eye.

If you have fun with it, drop me a line at the e-mail address at the bottom of this page; I happen to like very much to receive emails like "I am from Japan and I am showing this stunning software to my friends".

OverScan: user comments

• hey I have found a software that zooms images when you are using your camera, it's like having zoom 2×... this is free, unlike other zoom software (an user on Esato.com)
• OverScan is pretty cool and I can see some potential in it... Great app (unknown; Europe)
• Great, someone is sharing (for FREE!!!) software with us. Great, because this is seldom in those days. Great, a real "ITALIAN" program(mer). Great, please keep it up and continue to share... And "MILLE GRAZIE" (unknown; Europe)

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