Oliver Schwartz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to add some better error messages to the snapscan backend. If I > > > understand the current SANE standard correctly, the backend can supply an > > > error string for a given status code by an implementation of > > > sane_strstatus(). > > > > > > However, trying to implement sane_strstatus myself results in a linker > > > error as all backends are linked against sane_strstatus.c by default. > > > > sane_strstatus is not a backend function, it is a function > > that is linked to every library. You can not implement it > > in your backend. > > Fair enough. However, I believe that there should be a possibility for a > backend to provide some detailed error message to a frontend. If this is not > possible via sane_strstatus we should think of other ways for SANE-2.
In SANE2 a backend can open a frontend dialog to display a message. Bye Oliver -- Homepage: http://www.rauch-domain.de sane-umax: http://www.rauch-domain.de/sane-umax xsane: http://www.xsane.org E-Mail: mailto:oliver.ra...@rauch-domain.de
