[sane-devel] Newbie questions

[m. allan noah]

I suppose you have seen this:

http://www.chmil.org/hp4600linux/

It might at give you some hints. For a proper starting point, you
would want to take a look at an existing backend, and find one that
suits your programming style.

Also, please learn to cut and past text, instead of attaching images
of text. This will allow it to show up in the mailing list archives
and search engines...

allan

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM,  <clydes at theworld.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Pardon me if I start out a little rough around the edges, but here goes.
>
> I'd like to write a back end for the HP 4670 scanner which is currently
> not supported.
>
> Attached is the output from the find scanners command.
>
> I am not a strong programmer, but rather and embedded hardware designer,
> but know my way around C and am willing to give this a go. (I've written
> thousands of lines of assembler for just about every micro and a ton of
> FORTRAN putting myself through college.  There, I just dated myself!)
>
> If I am successful in this endeavour, I can finally kiss Windows good bye
> once and for all. The only reason I boot it any more is to use the
> scanner.
>
> My questions to the group are:
>
> 1.) Anyone out there started this effort on this scanner?
> 2.) I believe the scanner is high level, so I am wondering if there is a
> back end template to start from
> 3.) Is there material I need to read to smarten up (read-mes, tutorials,
> web stuff, etc. on how these things work?
> 4.) If anyone has friendly advice on how best to get started and tips on
> etiquette here, I am all ears.
>
> Clyde
> Boston Metro Area
>
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