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

[Jesse Chappell]

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).

jlc