Re: Twain interface

From: Mick Barry (mick@objects.com.au)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 15:38:19 PDT

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Oliver Rauch wrote:
>
> Nigel Feltham wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone thought of the possibility of adding a twain backend to sane with
> > use of the WINE project to allow use of WIN32 drivers for hardware otherwise
> > unsupported under linux (similar to the way the XINE linux video player can
> > use windows video codec dll's) or is this not possible due to hardware access
> > problems?
>
> Hello Nigel,
>
> the first problem I see is that it shall not be possible to turn
> off the graphical user interface of a lot of twain drivers.
> So it does not fit any more into the sane protocol.
>

Correct, some data sources can ONLY be operated using the TWAIN UI. Very
annoying really.

mick

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