Re: SANE V2

Tom Martone (tom@martoneconsulting.com)
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:49:56 -0400

Nick Lamb wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Tom Martone wrote:
>
> > Another use of the text frame might be to allow the backend to
> > report its configuration. Wouldn't it be nice if the backend information
> > shown in the Xsane dialog could include a little text area that simply
> > displayed a textual summary of the scanner's inquired
> > configuration and capabilities? This would be especially useful if
> > the scanner were being accessed through saned. I don't know the mechanism
> > by which the front end would ask for this, though.
>
> Hmm. I think what you're talking about here is stuff already better
> handled in SANE Options. Have you looked at that stuff in SANE 1.0?
> I think it's a very powerful way to express anything a user might want
> to know, and more, about the scanner's current state of mind.
>
> Also, in SANE Options it's clear which stuff you can change, and which
> stuff you can't -- there's even a way to say "The user can change this,
> but only by {pressing a button, flipping a dipswitch, opening a panel}
> on the scanner itself.

I should have kept my mouth shut about that example; it's a poor one.

You've made me think about some useful read-only options that I should
add, though. Thanks.

Tom Martone

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