[sane-devel] Canon Mx 700 - Scanbuttons

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 20:22 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote:

> hello Nelson/ list,
> I finally managed to find some time to work on the bjnp button scan
> support for the pixma backend. I got it working, although I am not
> really sure that it does not contain faults in some corner cases. As we
> are pretty close to the 1.0.23 release of sane, I will not yet commit
> the changes to git. It took me quite a while to figure out how the
> protocol works, so it has taken quite some time before I got something
> working. 
> 
> Please let me know if you are in a hurry to test before the 1.0.23
> release is done. If so, I can mail you a patch to apply on top of the
> current git. I have only tested this with xsane, as I did not have time
> to setup scanbd, sorry. It anyhow looks as if sane and printing (bjnp
> backend for cups) can access the device at the same time: I could print
> a page while xsane was waiting for a button to be pressed. When the
> printjob was done, I was able to press the scan button again.
> 
> Louis
> P.s. I will push my changes to git as soon as 1.0.23 is released 

As I was working on the scan button support, I found out that my
multi-function (MP980) does support IPv6 (I completely forgot). So I
have added IPv6 support for the pixma backend. The changes for button
support and IPv6 are now in git. Please test
Kind regards, Louis