On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> however, even CORBA does not help with the issue of "naming". do you
> have any thoughts on the correct argument type to lcp_open()? there
> are, as i mentioned, 2 scenarios:
>
> 1) host fork/execs the GUI process, passes it a cmdline argument
> for the argument to lcp_open and a UID of some kind for the
> plugin it will control. since the GUI is necessarily on the
> same host, use pid_t will work just fine.
> 2) user or other program fork/execs the GUI process, passing
> it a cmdline argument to point it at the desired LADSPA host.
>
> I don't really see (2) being very common, but given our technical+unix
> orientation, it seems that many people would want it catered to. Or
> perhaps not. I don't know.
>
> Anyway, my best guess so far has been this:
>
> lcp_open (const char *name);
>
> if (strchr (name, '/')) {
> ... unix domain socket like /tmp/lcp/<pid>
> } else if (strchr (name, ':') {
> ... inet domain socket like host.domain:port
> } else {
> ... malformed name ...
> }
>
> how does that seem ?
Umm, it will certainly work, though syntactically I'd prefer
an URL style notation [maybe do communication through http
protocol and use a browser for showing the GUI!? I.e. just
have each LADSPA plugin run its own webserver.].
Richard.
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