For those eagerly waiting for the backend for CanoScan 3200F, a brief status report.
Past couple of weeks I have been working on the actual backend and I abandoned the planned stand-alone package. Reason was that I did not, after a second tought, do many things that come free with the Sane frontends. So, it took about two weeks to get something to connect to scanimage and see that I have understood the basic interface and that I could build the proper shared libraries. Here is how I did it: In my home directory I made a working directory sane and put the latest sane-backends (fresh from CVS) there. Then I made sandbox directory to there and configured the sane-backends to use that (--prefix ~/sane/sandbox) and only to build the cs3200f and test backends (BACKENDS="test cs3200f"). After configuration I made some manual changes to the makefile and created the working files (starting with cs3200f.[ch] and adding others as needed). Because of these manual changes this can't yet be diffed to the CVS but once I get everything else working, putting the needed changes on top of the fresh CVS checkout is relatively straight forward task. So far I have created the interface and option handling so that xsane finds everything correctly and controls the options also correctly. (Kooka does not show many custom parameters, but that is it's problem. After all, you can't contol test backend with kooka either). The next steps will then be creation of the scannning thread and submitting default data from there to get some test image. Then I will be ready to begin integrating the actual driver and the library interface. I assume that starts sometime in early February. So, progressing about in schedule. With best regards, Lauri Pirttiaho Oulu Finland ................................................................... Luukku Plus paketilla p??set eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat el?m??si. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
