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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