Re: SANE V2

Andreas Beck (becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:40:00 +0200

> > 1. Medium-Old frontends that do not know format xxx together with a
> > driver that does. Those frontends cannot do anything reasonable with
> > the data the driver offers in format xxx.

> ... and won't get it because they don't ask for it.

I will not be able to get a format the backend _can_ do, just because my
frontend can't be smart about it ?

I want to be able to click an option "Format: image/strange_stuff", and
have my backend ask me to save the frames for me that itself doesn't
understand or given them away to external configured programs.

Note, that there is a question of how you ask for a frame format. Options
are global stuff. If you transfer multiframe stuff, you might get things you
did not specifically ask for, at least not in an (for the mind of a
program) obvious manner.

Cu, ANdy

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