Hi, On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:29:28AM +0100, Michael Herder wrote: > Jonathan Buzzard, Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 17:42: > > [email protected] said: > > True but closely related to this is the fact that scanning a single frame > > is a slow process; 10 minutes a frame is not unrealistic. Therefore > > if I only want one frame scanning the lot is a massive pain. If I have > > an APS film it will be horrendous if I just want frame 38 say. So you > > also need a way to select individual frames from what ever is loaded. > > On my scanner I have a holder for negatives, which has up to six frames, > > a holder for slides which has four and an APS adaptor which can take > > an APS film cartridge. From memory depending on which you insert into > > the scanner Vuescan offers an appropriate list to scan from. > > Maybe we could allow an option value size > sizeof(SANE_Word) for options of > type SANE_TYPE_BOOL ? The frontends could then present e.g. a list of > checkboxes (or something similar) to the user, where (s)he can select the > desired frames from.
I'm not sure, if this is the right approach. Can't this be done in the frontend entirely? I mean, the frontend must know about the option that selects the "frame" anyway so it can also provide a means to scan several different ones one after the other. Bye, Henning
