[sane-devel] adding a timeout for the scanner lamp

[Fred 1]

ok,thanks thats really good advice

cheers


On 29/04/17 01:34, m. allan noah wrote:
>   The driver (we call them backends) is the only part of sane that
> knows the protocol the scanner speaks. So, the backend would have to
> be called to perform this task. As an alternative, perhaps the
> frontend (xsane in this case) could close the scanner when it is idle,
> and re-open it when the user does something. That would in theory work
> with all scanners.
>
> allan
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Fred 1 <zfred68 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mustek BearPaw 2448 TA
>>
>> does it matter ?
>>
>> so i should be looking at the driver code?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/04/17 01:11, m. allan noah wrote:
>>> Depends on which scanner you are talking about, which you did not say.
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Fred 1 <zfred68 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> i'm not quite familiar with the code yet, but say i want to add a timeout
>>>> thingy for the scanner lamp,
>>>>
>>>> normally the lamp turns off when you exit xsane, ok, but failing that
>>>> would
>>>> like to have a configurable timeout....
>>>>
>>>> so i'll take any advice from who is already more familiar with the codes,
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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