[Wine] Re: Network Scanning

[vitamin]

sveijk wrote:
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> vitamin wrote:
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> > sveijk wrote:
> > > If only it would work with SANE, life would be a lot sweeter..
> > > 
> > > Know i'm thinking a long way out the box here, but going to fiddle and will report back if I have any progress.
> > 
> > 
> > Wine does not support any hardware drivers. That also includes printer / scanner drivers. There is just no infrastructure in place for them.
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> Indeed this is true, but it's not really hardware (Eh? I hear you exclaiming) It's actually a network device, and wine stuff will easily talk to a network device.  As already stated the control program is quite happily talking to the scanner whilst running under wine.


Well TWAIN (as well as printer) has it's own interface that is close to gdi. But that's why I said Wine doesn't have that part implemented either.