On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Wilhelm Meier <wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch 19 November 2008 schrieb m. allan noah: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Wilhelm Meier > <wilhelm.meier at fh-kl.de> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > does anybody know if the scanbuttond project ist still active? >> >> I dont think so. >> >> > Why is this project using different backends? >> >> because that is how the author decided to do it, it is not part of >> SANE. Lately, SANE has begun to add support for buttons, but not >> all backends do it yet, and the 'frontend' daemons (in our >> 'experimental' tree) likely will need some work. > > Ok, I've begun some work on this. > > The daemons in the experimental tree miss some features: > > 1) they can't coexist with saned because they hold the devices open > while polling and don't "know" about saned
correct. I suppose you could have them connect to saned instead of directly. > > 2) they lack a hal/dbus interface correct. there was some discussion of this (search the archives) but I don't recall if any code was produced for this or not. > > Actually I have 1) functional and I'm working on 2). > > The problem right now is, that there are only few backends, which > enumerate the buttons as sane-options. I have access to an epson > 1670, an avision av122 and a fujitsu fi-6130 for testing, but the > only one I can read the buttons as option is the fi-6130. Is there > any further work on this on the backend side? The fujitsu backend is probably the most complete regarding buttons. It is a fairly new part of the draft sane standard however, so it will take some time for other backends to implement support. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
