(splitting from 'hate Javascript' thread) Been wondering of a way to develop drivers offline, i.e. without physical access to a hardware controller.
Right now only people who have physical access to the controller can write a driver, so 'owner' == 'coder', which is a huge limitation. Let's say those two roles can be reassigned to two different people: owner doesn't need to know coding, coder only needs to be talented. Advantages would be support for more devices, better drivers, porting drivers to a new architecture is a one-off, can be unit-tested against previous arch. Process would be a ping-pong like: - owner runs wizard app with UI to generate raw "control" data (a binary stream), sends file to coder - coder uses control data to write driver, sends driver to owner - owner tests driver, gives feedback - repeat This "Driver Data Generator" app, first asks owner to select a frontal image of the device, then walks through a series of dialogs for each device widget: - locate widget on bitmap with mouse click or rect select - type? (knob, fader, wheel, button, toggle, XY cursor) - subtype? (clamped, infinite, discrete) - name? (channel1 upfader, booth volume, deckAwheel) - calibrate - fiddle randomly during 10 seconds I looked at a bunch of hardware I have at home (DJM800, CDJ100, misc MIDI controllers), what would be the most exotic devices Mixxx already supports that'd complicate this procedure? Scratch is a special case that probably shouldn't go through any script anyway. -- p ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
