Hannu Savolainen wrote: > >>> Next future development might be adding tooltip support to the mixer >>> API. In this way the driver can return a tooltip string that describes >>> the function performed by the control. >>> >>> >>> >> (a naming note:) I suggest the mixer API shouldn't be tied too much to the >> way >> the mixer program should display the controls. Maybe someone will want to >> write a curses-based mixer? Such a program could not use tooltips, but it >> could use a status bar. We could call this "description support" or >> something >> like that. >> >> I added a new ioctl call (http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/SNDCTL_MIX_DESCRIPTION.html) to the hg version. There is also a new MIXF_DESCR flag that tells if a mixer control has descriptive text available.
I also modified ossxmix to show the texts but it looks like it doesn't work yet (at least not under GTK+ versions before 2.12). The vmixN-src control in most mixers has a description defined. Best regards, Hannu _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
