Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 19:13, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Sounds a bit Data Source Manager like-ish (in TWAIN terms), definetly >> and idea for desktops. > > Yes. From what you told about TWAIN the other day, I think I like the > architecture. I don't know enough about TWAIN to tell for sure, > though. > > > Oh, I forgot to add: we get real locking/device management that way, > too. The TWAIN standard is open, and here is the link: http://twain.org/docs/TWAIN19.pdf Actually the capabilities are even quite similar. In retrospect I wonder why TWAIN was not used when SANE was started for the open / free OSs. Maybe just to do it differently than on Windows and the Mac. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name