[sane-devel] buttons-daemon for SANE genesys scanner

[dio.rahman at gmail.com]

Hi Pierre,

Thanks very much for your great work. Definitely I will try to look at it.

I was looking at your code before. But, I didn't make it, to adapt it
to those genesys scanner.

Thanks!

Best,

Dio

On 1/17/09, Pierre Willenbrock <pierre at pirsoft.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> Dhi Aurrahman schrieb:
>> Dear All!
>>
>> I have CanonScan LiDE 50 with me (working well with SANE genesys backend),
>> but I need to have a buttons-daemon for it.
>> Anyone could help me how to do it? I think the first step is to snoop the
>> USB message sent by the button when it is pressed.
>> If you have experience on developing button daemon, please share it with
>> me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Hi Dio,
>
> the code needed for button support is now available in the genesys
> backend from sane-backends cvs. If you did not already find it, there is
> sanebuttonsd in experimental cvs(in button-daemon/). It works great if
> you reduce the sleep at the end of the mainloop to 100ms
> (f.e. usleep(100000)).
>
> This is for Canon LiDE 35/40/50 only, so if anyone with a Canon LiDE 60
> wants his scanners buttons to work, he needs to add the flags for the
> buttons to the corresponding model struct and try if that works.
>
> Regards,
>   Pierre
>