Hi Allan, hi all, On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:38:31 Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, m. allan noah wrote: > [SNIPSNAP] > > yes, this will require that a front-end would have to be updated to > > understand this type of data. I can extend scanimage and scanadf > > (though i probably wont support all the possible conversions). it will > > also require (in the case of compression) that the front-end be able > > to deal with variable length data. > > > > comments, requests, flames? :) > > > Well extending SANE1 will certainly start the new discussion > about finishing SANE2 standard before starting - ACK ;) > But as we did not move forward and scanner support for Linux > is more or less stopped in its development, I vote for > extending SANE1. > > As long as it won't hurt the API and the flow-control, introducing > more frametypes should be no problem...
Nice to see no big flamewar about the simple frametype addition :-)! As we already discuseed in private +1 from me as well. When we are at it please let's add the INFRARED frame type I need for the latest (Avision OEM) Konica Minolta devices that deliver infra-red data for dust & co removal. On 2007-05-16 17:40 I proposed this: > > --- sane.h 2007-05-16 02:34:53.000000000 +0000 > > +++ sane.h.new 2007-05-16 15:28:52.000000000 +0000 > > @@ -169,7 +169,10 @@ > > SANE_FRAME_RGB, /* pixel-interleaved red/green/blue bands */ > > SANE_FRAME_RED, /* red band only */ > > SANE_FRAME_GREEN, /* green band only */ > > - SANE_FRAME_BLUE /* blue band only */ > > + SANE_FRAME_BLUE, /* blue band only */ > > + SANE_FRAME_INFRARED, /* infra-red band */ > > + SANE_FRAME_RGBI, /* pixel-interleaved > > red/green/blue/infra-red */ > > + SANE_FRAME_JPEG /* Joint Photographic Experts Group's JPEG > > */ > > } > > SANE_Frame; In the meantime I noticed the device can send Gray+IR as well which would mean SANE_FRAME_GRAYI, as well. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Susanne Klaus, Ren? Rebe Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B USt-IdNr.: DE251602478 http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
