Active Print

[TimKindberg]

I have added basic support for NTT DoCoMo's MECARD and MATMSG standards, which are used respectively for providing personal contact information and sending emails. These are handled via our code resolution services for now, rather than natively in Glass. You will need an email sending facility on the phone for MATMSG to work.

'Basic' support means that not all fields in the MECARD standard are recognised.

Try reading codes created by NTT DoCoMo's QR-factory software (http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/barcode/qr_fact.html).

Or type the following examples as the 'URI' in the Active Print code creator (http://www.activeprint.org/codes.php - but ignore warnings about the URI not being recognised):

MECARD:N:Active Print;EMAIL:info@activeprint.org;URL:www.activeprint.org;;

MATMSG:TO:info@activeprint.org;SUB:Active Print;BODY:Greetings;;

NB the MEBKM standard is already handled natively in Glass.

Tim

[hubby]

Hello Tim,

the MECARD-function is a great step ahead! First, I have tried to encode my complete business card information in a DM/QR-Code. The code was recognized but glass tried to open the phones native browser or opera an interpreted the MECARD as an URL, which could of course not been resolved…

Even your example:

[TimKindberg]

Sorry to hear you're having trouble.

First, Glass is *supposed* to launch the web browser for MECARDs. It sends the MECARD to a service which turns the data into a vcard and send that back. It's a little wasteful of bandwidth but this should work even for old versions of Glass. (I shall, however, make this facility 'native' in a forthcoming version of Glass.)

But I have to admit that I didn't test this facility for all the phones on which Glass runs.

I tried my example also on a 6600, using the native browser: I get 'Services - reply unknown' -- which I'm guessing is what you get. It looks as though the 6600's browser can't recognise the returned data -- even though, when I send exactly the same file to it by Bluetooth, it is recognised!

I'll look into this further but I doubt there is much I can do. My experience is that S60 phones are highly inconsistent in their ability to handle downloaded data, even though they possess applications to play/process that data.

Cheers,

Tim.

[hubby]

Hello Tim,

your answer above inspired me! First thing I’ve changed is to turn the browser from “Native” to “Opera”. Opera doesn’t recognize the code (maybe the definition of a mime-type or something like that could help it) as well but at least asks me if I want so save the Answer of the hp/activeprint-Server on my phone or memory-card anyway. After doing so, the new vCard is in my address-book.

It’s a pity that the MECARD-support actually makes possible name, phone and e-mail but with a little tricking around with some ASCII-Codes in the data-form on your page even the international phone-code (in my case “+49” for Germany) is correctly interpreted.

Here comes my anonymised data string

[TimKindberg]

Hi Hubby,

[hubby]

Hi Tim,

I don't want to be nerve-racking but just want to ask about your progress during the past month including the quoted function into glass.

Probable you are just on summer-holiday...