[linux-audio-dev] Re: New LADSPA Hints (Was: [ANNOUNCE] tapiir-0.7.1)

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:44:12AM -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> Steve Harris wrote on Sat, 01-Mar-2003:
> 
>  > > There is no reason MOMENTARY needs to be restricted to TOGGLED
>  > > controls.  There just needs to be a hint to specify what the "inactive"
>  > > value should be, which is the value that a compliant host must set the
>  > > port to after using a MOMENTARY with an "active" value.
>  > 
>  > I guess thats true, but if its retricted to toggled ports it will still be
>  > usable in non compliant hosts, and the value has to switch between two
>  > values, so it may as well be 0.0 and 1.0.
>  
> Well, a non-compliant host won't do anything with a momentary
> hint, so the momentary action won't be happening anyway.  The
> plugin itself isn't supposed to modify input controls so it can't
> do it itself (although it would be much easier).

do i understand this correctly ?
upon receipt of an event for a momentary CONTROL i set it to 1 for one
process call ?
and then back to 0...


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torben Hohn
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