[sane-devel] has feeder loaded

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:00:46 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:30:01PM +0100, Oliver Schirrmeister wrote:
> The fujitsu backend offers a SOFT_DETECT, HARD_SELECT option 'startbutton'
> to query button1. The same thing could be done with 'paper in hopper' or else.
> But these options should have the same name for all backends. Is there such
> a known name or other interface?

Not yet, but the SANE2 draft already contains a proposal for buttons:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane2/0.08/doc014.html

Additions for "paper in hopper" could be done. Can you explain why a
standardized option is useful? I don't say it isn't I just don't have
an idea what to do excatly with it.

Bye,
  Henning