[cw-discuss] TWAIN

[Attila Szegedi]

I see. I hoped CrossOver could help me eliminate this last Windows  
dependency from my system, but I guess I'll be buying a Mac compliant  
scanner instead...

Thanks for the swift answer.

Attila.

On 2008.04.03., at 15:46, Jeremy White wrote:
> Hi Attila,
>
> I'm afraid you are probably out of luck.
>
> CrossOver supports TWAIN, but in the opposite way you are looking for.
> That is, CrossOver uses devices already recognized
> by an xsane backend on your system and presents them to Windows  
> applications.
> So it won't help you connect a device that your Mac doesn't already  
> recognize.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> Attila Szegedi wrote:
>> Hi there. Is TWAIN supposed to work under CrossOver on Mac? (And
>> CrossOver Games?) I tried running the scanner driver install for  
>> Xerox
>> Workcentre PE114 in a bottle, and then installing IrfanView into the
>> same bottle. I'll admit I did this on CrossOver Games trial version,
>> as that's the product I'd like to buy -- I primarily have a need to
>> run games and Half-Life 2 indeed runs like charm; my only windows-
>> specific productivity activity is to scan exactly 1 document/month
>> (invoice for my only current consulting client); I'd rather not buy
>> CrossOver in addition to CrossOver Games for this purpose only...
>>
>> Both installs completed successfully (well, IrfanView required
>> scooping MFC42.DLL from elsewhere...), the Xerox TWAIN driver is  
>> where
>> I'd expect it to be (c:\windows\twain_32 directory), but in  
>> IrfanView,
>> the TWAIN source selector dialog doesn't come up.
>>
>> So, answers to following questions would be appreciated?
>> - is TWAIN supposed to work with CrossOver Games? If yes, any idea
>> what I'm doing wrong?
>> - is TWAIN supposed to work with regular CrossOver? If yes, should it
>> be a straight affair of running the scanner install in a bottle?
>>
>> Thanks for any answers,
>>   Attila.