[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] translator extensions : gui, interactive, blocking flags

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:22:14 +0100

On 2009-12-02 at 22:44:00 [+0100], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Well some badly written one might do so, though yes they should
> > > > not do
> > > > user interaction and let the app decide to retry.
> > > >
> > > > But for stuff like the Sanity translator, well it needs to show
> > > > the
> > > > scanner GUI.
> >
> > Well, this application might simply bend the translator interface
> > beyond
> > what is supposed to be used for. IMHO there should be a different
> > interface
> > for scanner/digital camera support.
> 
> Well this makes all apps able to scan as long as they can read an
> image.

Yeah, and I'm sure one could write a translator, that would print a bitmap 
given to it, which would enable all applications that write a bitmap to 
print. Still there's a separate printing API.

CU, Ingo

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