Re: [LAD] jack-session finally merged.

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On 03/28/2010 09:32 PM, torbenh wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:31:10PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 03/28/2010 12:24 PM, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the effort you've put into this. I havent even tried it
>>>> yet, (will do so
>>>> when I get some time), however as a Lin-Audio user, I really
>>>> appreciate this work.
>>>>
>>>> I will read the API, and if I understand enough of it, I will code
>>>> support for these
>>>> features.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yesterday I tried to quickly whip up a demo app. I got into it for an
>>> hour but couldn't decide if it was worth adding all the gui features
>>> necessary for a simple demo.
>>>
>>> So far I came up with an app that load a gtk window with two buttons and
>>> four sliders.
>>>
>>> button1: Save Session
>>> button2: quit session
>>>
>>>
>> there is no standard way to trigger a Session Save.
>> it will be session manager dependent.
>>
>> pyjacksm has a dbus interface. but i wouldnt consider it stable as of
>> yet.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> This will no doubt lead to some confusion. Is there a recommended way of
> handling the session save/quit operation in app? Or should we all just
> leave that to the SM app and just add support for receiving the
> notification in app?
>
>
>
>>> slider 1 = channel 1, slider 2 = channel 2 etc...
>>>
>>> When save session/quit session are pressed the app saves the position of
>>> the sliders to a file on disk and loads it again when started if it exists.
>>>
>>> As a simple app it won't really do anything useful apart from demo how
>>> to work with the code so I would like to get some feedback from other
>>> users on what would actually be a useful demo of the code in action.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking along the lines of the demos apple released for the iphone
>>> which while being mostly fairly unnecessary are also still perfectly
>>> functional apps in their own right.
>>>
>>> If I can remove widgets or add only a couple more that would be preferable.
>>>
>>>
>> i dont really see the relation to jack session.
>> only 10% of such an app would be jack session related.
>> i dont really think would be a good demo of jack-session.
>>
>> but maybe i am wrong.
>> i tend to think that patches which add session support are better
>> examples.
>>
>> this is the patch for seq24:
>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/attachment/wiki/WalkThrough/User/jack_session/jack-session.patch
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> That's not a bad idea. If we get a few different apps with different
> languages and UI kits to contribute patches and version numbers of the
> working app we would have a very useful resource and saves having to
> write a new app just for demo purposes.
>
> I will contribute a patch for jackEQ which is c+gtk2 in the next few days.
>

:)

OT: Does the currently released jackEQ now support restoring of the
settings as the unofficial version I'm using does?
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Received on Sun Mar 28 16:15:03 2010