Re: Win32 TWAIN DLL to interface with SANE

Brian Macy (bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com)
Wed, 13 May 1998 08:42:35 -0700

> Brian> I want to write a TWAIN DLL that communicates to saned on my
> Brian> Linux box. As far as I can tell the only way to communicate
> Brian> with saned over a network is RPC -- If I'm wrong *please*
> Brian> tell me, I'd be happy to be wrong :)
>
>Yes, saned uses RPCs but it's not Sun RPC (if that's what you were
>referring to).
>
>The SANE RPC system is very simple and documented in the SANE API
>document (http://www.mostang.com/sane/html/). My guess is that it
>would be fairly easy to get the "net" backend going under Win32.
>Writing the GUI part would be quite some work, though (basically,
>you'd have to re-implement xscanimage).

I guess I just need an example of making a SANE RPC call from Win32. On that
part of things I have no clue what I'm doing. The TWAIN DLL and GUI is
mostly a known entity, I'm not concerned about them.

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