Hi,
I am looking to get some advice about unusual scanning situations so
that I can deal with them properly with my new backend and with some
other work that I have planned:
1) sane_get_parameters() can return "lines" with a value of -1 to
indicate that the length is not known in advance.
However, are there any well-known ways for a frontend to indicate that
the backend should scan the "full length" of whatever media is currently
loaded?
I am mainly thinking here of scanning a set of documents in an ADF that
are all of different lengths. Perhaps the backend could supply a special
option of "detected length" to indicate that a length will not be
specified and whatever length of the loaded media will be accepted?
2) Related a little to 1), I have been looking at a problem in the
epsonds backend in which it doesn't work properly with saned because it
does the scan in a call to sane_get_parameters() so that it can provide
an accurate length of the scan (having already performed the scan).
However saned calls sane_start() *before* sane_get_parameters() which is
perfectly legal. Indeed, no frontend *has* to call sane_get_parameters()
at all. This breaks things somewhat. I feel that what epsonds is doing
is a bit broken. So I would like to rework it to return -1 for the
number of lines, preparing the frontend for an unknown length and
perform the scan properly after sane_start() has been called. Comments?
Cheers,
Ralph
