Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 19:51:16 EET
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:00:43PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > Doesnt it make more sense to require imstruments to handle all
> > values in the range that they declare as valid? Thats not hard.
>
> Hmm... Well, yes, but how do you handle these enum controls with
> "random" modes that can be disabled depending on the values of other
> controls?
>
> IMHO, such controls would be a sign of bad design, and in that case,
> we could basically just rule them out, or rather ignore (*) them -
> but I could be missing something.
Yes, I can only think of one example of this (in any plugin system) and it
was definalty a case of bad design.
- Steve
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