Hello Henning. That is a known problem of the SANE1 standard. The only way a frontend can find out the name of the device is sane_get_devices. But sane_get_devices only can return the name of devices that are configured.
I do not know another way to find out the name of a device with SANE1. Bye Oliver On Sunday 01 December 2002 19:57, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:06:12PM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Is ":libusb" a keyword we can search for in thos way: > > if ":libusb" is part of the device name then use the > > text before ":libusb" instead of before the last ":" ? > > There is yet another problem with backend name detection in xsane: > If the backend in question isn't in dll.conf, xsane can't detect it's > name. E.g.: "xsane test" prints "unknown:test" in the title bar. > "xsane test:0" prints "unknown:0". > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
