23 Apr
2011
23 Apr
'11
11:43 a.m.
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 19:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
Well, hang on... can't you force a client to take a particular ID? You
can do that with the hardware addresses by specifying it in asound.conf
so your MIDI interfaces stay in the same place across reboots (otherwise
it's a race to see which interface initialises first).
Gordon MM0YEQ
But surely,
the client IDs are a moving target. I want to connect
to a specific instance of ZynaddsubFX, not to the program that was
the second one to get an ALSA ID...
Am I missing something?
i don't think so. but since, as dave pointed out, there is no
particular mapping between client IDs and names, there's really no way
to do this. i think. like i said, i consider the whole design totally
FUBAR'ed. if you use numeric ID's you're screwed because the client ID
may change; if you use names, you're screwed because you can't map
reliably from names to the numeric ID's required by the API. that's
how it looks to me, anyway.