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Hi, i've looked around for posts on this for a while now and I can see alot of posts from people having issue with camera control in browser, the black screen and notification that "your camera isnt properly set up or already in use".

However I have a different issue here.

The camera control is working and its showing an image when I open in it in either a browser or the windows store app.

But It just wont capture the image, I click around all over the place and it just doesnt take the picture.

The way it takes the picture is with cameracontrols OnSelect property.

I also added a button that runs the same code as the OnSelect property, it navigates to the page like its supposed to but does not capture the image.

This all works on mobile devices, so I have no idea why this isnt working on laptop.

The OnSelect Property of the camera control is this

ClearCollect(
 PICTEST,
 Camera1.Photo
);
Set(
 varBild,
 First(PICTEST).Url
);
Navigate(TagenBild)

It captures the image and on the next screen you can decide if you like to save the image or not.

I run on version 3.18054.42

Any ideas?

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WarrenBelz 156,750 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @drwaz ,

Set the Camera StreamRate to 100 and put this on the Button

ClearCollect( PICTEST, Camera1.Stream )

The issue you have is the camera photo does not exist until it it taken by the camera control with its own OnSelect.

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Thanks, i must have left my brain in bed this morning. Of course thats how it is.
Cheers for waking my mind up!
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Hi @WarrenBelz ,

I followed the same procedure as you explained, however it doesn't seem to work in my browser. Before it did work and that is why I know find it weird that is does not work anymore, do you have a clue by looking at the following code/properties?

CameraControl with properties:
OnSelect: False
Streamrate: 100

Button (for taking picture) with properties:
ClearCollect(_varTakenPhoto, CameraTest.Stream)

Image with properties:
First(_varTakenPhoto).Url

Cheers,
Wouter
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@WoLe98 ,

Nothing wrong with your code - just tested it here with your exact names and it worked perfectly.