Hi Oliver, Thank you for taking the time to try it out, and for your detailed bug reports.
> yes, it works now - nice. One thing I noticed is > that the scan button > becomes inactive after the scan, so you can only run > the applet once. > The clear button seems to have no effect at all. Right, the clear button is not hooked up at all, and the UI (and upload component) still needs a bunch of work. In fact I have a newer version that needs to go up there. I just wanted to get the SANE / JNI layer tested and working first. The UI is going to get a lot of changes. One is that I will also create an applet that's more of a conventional scanner tool, where you do a preview and then the user crops it. All this will be going into our upcoming contact management application. Yes, there will be a desktop / office type application that has Linux support BEFORE it has MS Windows support! > > Also, as soon as I get a x64 (soon!) I'll compile > the > > binary for that. > > I'm not sure it will work at all - as far as I can > tell there's no 64 > bit java plugin available for firefox. It may work > in konqueror > though. Well, that is beyond the scope of what I can do. But I just realized something: our server computer (http://chiralsoftware.net/) is a 86_64 so I can compile it! I'm sending you a 86_64 .so file in a private message. I would be delighted if you would try it out. I have no idea if it will work, and I have no way to test it myself because obviously our server doesn't have a scanner, etc, plugged into it. On another subject, can we get the JNI code rolled into the SANE project distribution? The current japi code in sane-backend has not been maintained for about 9 years now. Our company will sponsor the code and code maintenance. Can we do this please? Java is part of the future of the Linux desktop, with some major and very active projects (Jakarta, gcj, Apache Harmony, and Kaffe) all very active. Scanner access is a small but important part of it. Whoever has control over what goes in the dist, please contact me so we can do this. We've already open-sourced another component of it, which is a "light" fork of HttpClient: http://chiralsoftware.net/httpclient-fork.html We're going to make a big deal of the security and privacy of our contact management service, and part of it is that all the code will be either Java (which is easy to analyze for malware), or will have source code available, so people could look in the code for libscanner.so and confirm, "yup, that does exactly what they say it does, and I can compile it myself." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
