The reader supports customization of the camera overlay and the integrated help that is displayed.
If you are scanning with the camera, whether using a ZBarReaderViewController for automatic capture or manually with ZBarReaderController, you may want to customize the appearance of the reader. You do this mainly by setting a cameraOverlayView.
Note that if you are scanning images from the photo library, there is no customization - you are limited to the system picker interface provided by the UIImagePickerController.
If you are using a ZBarReaderViewController, are only planning to support iOS 4 and just want to add to the existing controls, you can simply set your overlay to include the additional view hierarchy:
reader.cameraOverlayView = myLogoImageView;
Otherwise, if you are using a ZBarReaderController, still need the iOS 3.1 fallback or prefer to completely replace the default controls, you should disable those first. Note that you will need to provide your own controls, which should at least include a way to dismiss the reader:
reader.showsCameraControls = NO; // for UIImagePickerController
reader.showsZBarControls = NO;
reader.cameraOverlayView = myControlView;
For manual capture with ZBarReaderController, you should also include a control connected to takePicture.
See Backward Compatibility for more information about iOS 3.1 fallbacks.
In either case, the overlay view may be loaded from a NIB, or simply created programmatically.
You can also disable the tracking rectangle that highlights barcodes with tracksSymbols.
If you have set showsZBarControls = NO and replaced the default controls, you may still present the built-in help viewer. Just hook your custom control to the showsHelpWithReason: method of the controller. You should only call this method when the reader is actually presented.
The default reader controls invoke showsHelpWithReason: with a reason parameter of "INFO" when the info button is tapped.
Whether you use the default controls or provide your own, you can still customize the content of the help that is displayed. The integrated viewer uses a UIWebView to display the contents of zbar-help.html that we copied into your Resources. You should hack this up as you see fit to give your users the best help experience.
To allow for runtime customization based on the reason for presenting help, the javascript function onZBarHelp will be called just before the page is displayed, with the reason argument set as provided to showsHelpWithReason:.