[sane-devel] scanner buttons

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Friday 09 July 2004 15:12, m. allan noah wrote:
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> > The user should not be able to toggle the option in the interface ...
>
> do any other backends currently use hard_select? if not, perhaps that
> description should be updated slightly?

Only the test backend!

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> > And as work around for my "when to flush the state to false" for the
> > buttons I only re-fetch them from the scanner if sane_control_option
> > is called for the first button available.
>
> that is the easiest, i guess.
>
> > Of course the interface details can be easily changed - and I'm open
> > for suggestions or interfaace additions to mark to-be-polled options.
>
> i think we need a polling capability, though that would mean changes to
> front-ends....

Yes I also think so! We should add this to the current stuff!
I also think we need some callback stuff for warmup notification.

Ciao,
  Gerhard