[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA extension - Formal proposal.

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:36:54 +0100, Jan Weil wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:52, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > /* This hint must be used only together with LADSPA_HINT_INTEGER. 
> 
> [snip explanation on multiway switches]
> 
> > #define LADSPA_HINT_SWITCHED        0x400
> 
> Since this is a special hint which implies LADSPA_HINT_INTEGER,
> shouldn't this be made clear to the plugin coder explicitly?
> 
> #define LADSPA_HINT_SWITCHED        (0x400 | LADSPA_HINT_INTEGER)
> 
> FWIW the very fact that one hint implies another hint makes me feel a
> little uncomfortable.

I think it would be safer to /not/ enforce this and require the plugin
authors to explicitly say LADSPA_HINT_INTEGER as well to make sure they
know what there doing.

Hosts could reject any plugin that has LADSPA_HINT_SWITCHED and not
LADSPA_HINT_INTEGER.

- Steve