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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