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<h1>Win32 SANE interface...</h1>
<b>Brian Macy</b> (<a href="mailto:bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com"><i>bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:05:49 -0800</i>
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This thing is currently butt simple. I hacked out the interface last night<br>
because I couldn't sleep.<br>
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Features:<br>
- File::Scan - prompts for host and user names and then does a full page<br>
scan using default settings on the server. Shows the picture FitToWindow<br>
(maintains proper scale) on the program.<br>
- Edit::Copy - copies the full page scan into the Clipboard so you can paste<br>
it into your favorite editor (I recommend PixWizard or PaintShop Pro).<br>
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That's it. It will be Open Sourced so others can help on it too.<br>
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Current Limitations:<br>
- It assumes you want to scan off the first device found on the host<br>
- No preview or scan area selection<br>
- No setting of any sort<br>
- Only works if the host sends it RGB 8bits/pixel data back.<br>
- No status while it is scanning... the program just locks for a while.<br>
- Probably lots of bugs<br>
- Builds only with Borland (possibly the 5.x series only) and OWL<br>
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Like I said, it will be Open Sourced. It uses a simple C++ implemenation of<br>
the SANE network protocol. I was hoping that the TWAIN driver that was<br>
released would have taken care of my needs but since it doesn't work at all<br>
for me *and* the DLL itself is not open source, it is worthless for me. Many<br>
of you may find this program worthless too but it does the job for me and<br>
you will have the ability to fix it in the future.<br>
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Details:<br>
- Executable is available at ftp.sunshinecomputing.com:/pub/winsane<br>
- Source for application will be available when I come up with a decent<br>
license (GPL is too restrictive)<br>
- The 3rd party library I use and help develop is at www.ysl.org . Great<br>
little library (unbiased opinion of course:) and at one time built in Linux<br>
egcs and Borland C++ (currently handles only Borland Win32 but Linux and<br>
Win32 egcs will return along with many other compilers). The latest release<br>
of the library doesn't support GUI builds (I had to hack them in) and there<br>
is a bug in YSocketStream::Read_v function that makes it not work (my bug:).<br>
Anyways, the YSLs would welcome contributions (in like style).<br>
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Brian Macy<br>
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