[Openicc] HP Elitebook 8540W notebook with Dreamcolor display

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Sat Feb 12 06:00:01 PST 2011


Am 11.02.11, 18:19 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> The ookala-mcf project was basically still born.  HP through a tar ball up on
> SourceForge and and more or less walked away from it.  They never even
> bothered to setup a source code repository and did nothing to encourage a
> community to form around it.  This is all really sad since what is there is a
> very powerful frame work for creating a plug in system for color components
> for monitors that included a base set of plug ins.  But they did not or were
> unable to even convice X-Rite to make the libraries needed for the two
> measurement device plug ins readilly available.

A colour measurment device driver API should not solely depend on a 
monitor framework.
Typical are C libraries, as they are much easier to be adapted due to the 
fixed nature of the language. An other option are single executables per 
device with some common feature set like a CGATS export.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org



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