[linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Sat Feb 8 01:29:00 UTC 2003


On Saturday 08 February 2003 06.48, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > > However, I don't like the idea of making all controls have
> > > > hard ranges. It restricts the users in ways not necessarily
> > > > intended by plugin authors, since there's no way to set
> > > > controls to values
> > >
> > > no, it restricts users in ways EXACTLY intended by the authors.
> >
> > Unless the author just intended to hint a useful range for a
> > control that doesn't have obvious limits. There's no way to do
> > that if ranges are hard.
>
> That _CAN_ be solved,

How? All ideas are of interest... :-)


> but I feel outnumbered in my position. ;) 
> I'll bet a pint that a lot of plugins will have internally clamped
> hardlimits.

Sure, but they don't have to be clamped to the hinted ranges.


> > > Specifying this
> > > stuff in an API is insane.
> >
> > Except on platforms that have multiple commonly used calling
> > conventions. (Like Win32.) If you say "use standard C calling
> > conventions", you're fine, but if you say nothing, you're asking
> > for trouble.
>
> OK, I'm fine with that.  I just don't want to see us explaining
> what they are. :)

Agreed. That's platform specific stuff, and we're not inventing "Java 
for DSP", are we? ;-)


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