Loadable Module Responsibilities

The loadable module doesn't need to know anything about the color profiles or where they are stored. It simply performs the required measurements and fills out the data structures passed in by Calibrator Tool. Then it returns the information to the main program.

This is a simplification, of course. The module uses some mechanism for obtaining the calibration data from the monitor device. The KCMS portion of the Solaris SDK provides two sample dynamically loadable modules. One module (colorsense.so.1) requires the use of a hardware colorimeter connected to a serial port on the local system to obtain color data measurements. The other module obtains measurement data without a colorimeter. In either case, the module provides a GUI for interaction with an end user.

KCMS includes a loadable driver for the X-Rite DTP92 colorimeter. The driver is very similar to the colorsense() module described in this guide. It supports the X-Rite colorimeter, which connects to the serial port to obtain color measurement data.