Re: Xsane-0.55: scan resolution selection (Epson 1200S, CVS Sane)

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 13:39:43 PST

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    Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:

    > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 09:46:17PM +0000, Dave Hill wrote:
    > > Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
    > > >
    > > > No need no apologize... Thanks for the explanation, but it came
    > > > a bit too late :-) I have tried this and since yesterday it's in
    > > > the repository. XSane does display the complete list (32 values)
    > > > an it starts with 50 dpi (it does however set the preview resolution
    > > > for a full page scan to 60 dpi).
    > > >
    > >
    > > I realised afterwards that the "20 items and > 50" only applied
    > > if xsane made up the list.
    > >
    > > Yes, it works, but disables the slider entirely in xsane and
    > > xscanimage. Looks like you can't have the best of both worlds
    > > (a list of resolutions that match the ones the scanner likes
    > > or the ability to choose any resolution from the slider).
    >
    > I guess the slider issue could be changed in xsane. The old way this
    > was handled in the Epson backend for the preview resolution used a
    > slider and displayed only the "real" resolutions. Oliver is not
    > using the SANE slider for the resolution setting, he is doing something
    > special so that he can hide or display it at will. I assume that it
    > shluld be possible to emulate the resolution selection via slider
    > even if the scanner reports a list.

    That would be possible but:
    why should the frontend create a slider when only the discrete values in the
    list are usable?

    Bye
    Oliver

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