On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:09:00 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > > Also what seems to be missing is the API part for querying > > a host for its plugins and the plugins for its ports. > > The idea was that the host would be spawning the frontend (GUI, whatever). > In LADSPA it is fairly simple for a frontend to inspect the plugin to find > out what its ports are. OTOH it could be a wothwhile addition if we ever > support frontends to "lambda networks". > > I don't really like the idea of specifying the ports by string as this > makes the LADPSA case unnecesarily slow. It would require a lookup by the > host for every parameter change.
For no param change rate this cost will be greater than the communication cost involved anyway. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/ The GLAME Project: http://www.glame.de/
