(copy to list) Yes the STDIN/STDOUT is pretty kludgy way of interfacing to SANE, but it was quick and dirty. Now that I have the core objects written like I want them, I can now go back and figure out how to glue it up using a direct binding.
Actually I think what most Mono programmers do is write a C binding system object lib that uses simple data types and then write a .NET object which uses [DllImport] P/Invoke directive on the methods to redirect the calls on the object to the library. What I need to do now is read the scanimage source code and understand how it works so I can understand the headers and write the .NET proxy class and the lib glue code (no small task!) :-) On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Sawyer > <christoofar at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I had been looking for a long time for a Mono binding for SANE but most > of > > my efforts have been fruitless (probably because none exist! :-) so I > > started writing my own. > > > > If anybody wants to help me, I put the source here: > > http://code.google.com/p/mono-sane/ > > > > The code is capable of reading the scanner list from scanimage, > interpreting > > the configuration options, performing a one-pass scan with or without > > scanimage options. > > > > It shells out to scanimage and collects its output from there. I'm > > expanding it as I go along since I'm using it to experiment with forms > > recognition. I'm working on ADF, thread-safety, delegate callbacks for > > asynchronous scanning right now and hope to finish it soon. > > > > Dunno much about Mono but you should be using the SANE API directly. > It has of course native binding to C, but surely there must be a way > of loading shared objects and static C libraries from Mono/C#. For > example in Perl it's called XS, a language/API that helps glue C code > to Perl, there surely must be something for C#., I think you should be > looking into that, rather than a STDIN/STDOUT interface with > scanimage. Just did a quick google search came up with this: > > http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries > > Cheers, > Alejandro Imass > > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20100404/6cb47c3b/attachment.htm>