From kde-devel  Thu May 22 12:38:58 2008
From: Thomas Gillespie <tomjamesgillespie () googlemail ! com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:38:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: libksane
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Hi K=E5re

> As I see it there is only a gui part. The non gui part would be the readi=
ng
> of the data it self (which is ~2 functions). All the parameter
> editing/setting is integrated into the gui.
> To save some memory it could be possible to make a "openDeviceNoWidget"
> that wouldn't create the widgets, but only read the available options and
> wait for a scan command.

The non gui part may not be a complicated class, with only functions for im=
age=20
grabbing, device selecting and parameter setting, but it would do all the h=
ard=20
work with sane, allowing the gui part to simply hook into this class, but a=
lso=20
allowing developers to create  different gui's, more suited to their needs,=
=20
without replicating the whole sane interfacing code.

> There I must disagree :) I don't think scan source, mode, bit depth and
> resolution can be too complicated/confusing.

Maybe confusing was the wrong word, 'unnecessary in some situations' may be=
 a=20
better phrase.

> But for stuff like archiving documents, there could be applications that
> would scan all the pages in an ADF, with specific settings, without user
> intervention. There a gui less interface would be better :)

Exactly, in fact this whole idea came from a small ocr app I was trying to=
=20
build, where i simply want to grab the whole image in a resonably high=20
resolution and then pass it to my main app. Here the needs are simple and=20
almost all of the options are unnecessary for my needs. The KSaneWidget as =
it=20
is seems a bit overkill for my needs.

Thanks

Tom


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