[LAD] jack-session finally merged.

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 03/28/2010 10:12 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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?


Yes, and a few more tweaks since then that I have forgotten.


Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
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