Bug: WebcamPublisher always gets the first camera

Question

Hi,
It seems WebcamPublisher always gets the first camera in the list, no matter what camera is chosen by the end user. Beside this, at some point in WebcamPublisher, it has been hardcoded to use Apple's isight camera, if no cam was found:
if( _camera==null){
// If there is no camera , create it and attach it to the stream
if (_cameraNameIndex==null && Capabilities.os.indexOf("Mac OS 1")!=-1) {
// it's silly season - let's try to detect iSight cams, if nothing gets specified
var l:int = Camera.names.length;
for (var i:int=0; i<l; i++) {
if (Camera.names[i]==ISIGHT_NAME) {
_cameraNameIndex = i+"";
break;
Could someone from the lccs development team respond about the quality of code in lccs library, and whether the lib is supposed to be ready for production use. I have asked this in my previous post, but not response has been given so far.
Aureliano

Answer 1

Hi,
The WebcamPublisher by default, selects what is returned by the player's Camera.getCamera() API i.e. the default camera player could detect. This is when _cameraNameIndex is null. If you want, you can set the cameraNameIndex property i.e. the camera name string( you can do that by getting Camera.names API in flash player) before starting the Webcam. It will then take the camera you mentioned.
In fact we have one of our real life application that uses this property to set the camera you want to see.
You can always use your handler to the selected value of camera in SecurityPanel.CAMERA and set it to the cameraNameIndex property.
And lastly, yes our code is production ready. We have our own commercial apps as well as enterprises using it for building application. If you want to change any part of the code, you are free to do so.
Hope this helps
Thanks
Hironmay Basu