[LAD] jack-session finally merged.

[Ralf Mardorf]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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> 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?
>
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> Yes, and a few more tweaks since then that I have forgotten.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd

Wow :) thank you. I'll replace the version I'm using now by the current 
version. Nag, nag, nag: Please, for the future do an announcement for 
progresses similar to this one ;). Your app is useful, but it doesn't 
help us users, if we don't know about progresses.