the problem with doing it this way, is you'd need some way to notify each application of all the sensors available at runtime, or you re-compile each availability sensitive app for every combination of sensors (having that many versions of software is sure to turn off Sean's dad) there's definately more to think about on this one
Are you thinking of not only notifying each application on the number of sensors.. (That would be easy enough in the api) but also to let them have access to the setup/configure api for each one?
Enumerating over each sensor that is active would be fairly easy using the plugin mechanism previously described... If every plugin had the same output ranges... Say 0 to 255 or whatever and using the probability scenario he talked about the application would only need to know one interface, I.e. Availability. As I understand the proposal, and I might be wrong, it would end up a heirarchy. Lower level plugins could be accessed at any level but the common usage would be to build behaviors going up from the sensors and applications would interface with that... Is that right?
With that in mind, each plugin would register with some service which handles the interface to applications. Each behavior created would do the same and gain access to the sensors available. Then a control panel could be created to enable/disable some but not all plugins at the will of the user, though that would modify the behaviors, they would then act on the information currently available.
Seems like a fairly interesting concept. Do I understand the concepts or am I missing something?
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