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What is this plug-in?
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This is a Linux/Mozilla plug-in that enables a scanner/digital
camera application to be created with JavaScript. To this end
the SANE plug-in provides two things:
1. I have attempted to export all of the SANE API's
from the SANE native libraries to JavaScript.
(I have provided two brain-dead samples for a
CPia USB digital camera and HP 6300 scanner.)
2. A drawing surface for displaying the scanned image.
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Why did you bother?
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Originally, I used this plug-in to cut my teeth on the new Mozilla
XPCom plug-in model. Now I am hoping to provide a Linux/Mozilla
plug-in sample that exercises most of the functionality that the
Linux community would want to use (like connecting JavaScript
to native code.)
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You know, Linux isn't the only UN*X around!
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I say Linux because that is the only platform I have built/tested on.
SANE is supported by a long list of UN*X OS's so there is no reason
that other platforms shouldn't work with this plug-in.
(I have tried to stick to NSPR functions for this reason, but it's easy
to over look a couple of Linux specific functions.)
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How do I build this beast?
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In order to build this plug-in, you need the SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy) libraries/headers installed on your system. For more
info on SANE, go to http://www.mostang.com/sane.