[gphoto-devel] Running Polaroid PhotoMax under wine

[Nathan Stenzel]

It would be really nice if TWAIN and WINE would work together to support TWAIN compatable drivers under Linux.
Surely this would be much easier than every piece of hardware having a Linux driver hacked for it.
It would open up the hardware makers to a whole new operating system too.
I would hope that all the TWAIN drivers would have a way to run on any OS.
TWAIN is supposed to be a standard afterall and standards are supposed to make things easier.
I decided this was an interesting idea so I am sending copies of this to various other newsgroups (some of which I am not subscribed to).

> I set wine up for the express purpose of seeing if the windoze
> software would download the pictures from my camera.  I had the same
> problem with the buttons not showing up in PhotoMAX, but I got
> Irfanview to run successfully.  However, it wouldn't acknowledge the
> existence of the camera, so I posted to the wine newsgroup about it.
> They said that the function calls required by the TWAIN driver(s)
> aren't [yet?] implemented.
>
> Regards,
> Ben