[Jack-Devel] Odp: Re: New build of QJackCtl for Windows

[Hanspeter Portner]

On 12.05.2016 08:26, Pawel wrote:
> What about aliases ?

Which one? a port can have up to 2 aliases...

> Dnia Czwartek, 12 Maja 2016 08:22 Hanspeter Portner <ventosus at airpost.net> napisał(a) 
>> On 12.05.2016 06:27, aledez0 wrote:
>>> is there any way to list the connections by how there are in the project file
>>> instead of by alphabetical order?
>>
>> YES (theoretically)
>>
>> There is a way, by means of the metadata api [1] via the metadata key 
>> 'http://jackaudio.org/metadata/order' [2], but the trio of JACK client, 
>> server and patchbay must support this for it to work.
>>
>> * the client sets the order of its ports via 'jack_set_property'
>> * the server stores the metadata in a database
>> * the patchbay reads the metadata to order ports accordingingly
>>
>> NO (practically)
>>
>> * only few clients and patchbays support this yet
>> * JACK1 implements the metadata API, JACK2 still does NOT
>>
>>  > in mixbus 3 once you have named the tracks
>>> they don't show up in the connection window in the order they are in the
>>> project window.
>>
>> [1] http://jackaudio.org/api/group__Metadata.html
>> [2] https://github.com/drobilla/jackey/blob/master/jackey.h
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