[sane-devel] scanner buttons

Rene Rebe rene@rocklinux-consulting.de
Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:21:01 +0200 (CEST)


HI,

On: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:05:13 +0200,
    Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> wrote:

> Don't forget that option values may be bigger than a view bytes. E.g.=

> gamma tables. And SANE also works over the net and constant polling o=
f
> all options seems rather useless for me. I think it's not that
> complicated to mark the options whose values can change by hardware
> (buttons, switches, lamp status, what else?)

Ack.

> You could use this auto-poll-every-option mode as a workaround as lon=
g
> as SANE 2 is not ready. But I don't recommend to put it into any
> "real" fontends, only special button programs.

Well - special programs can also just poll the special options they
know about ;-)

Regarding SANE 2: Do you have any idea if coding on it will ever start
,-)? I mean, how long are we discussing proposals already?

Sincerely yours,
  Ren=E9 Rebe

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