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Subject: Fw: warnings about JACK Date: Friday 29 December 2006 7:13 am From: "Chris Cannam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any chance you could forward the attached to rg- devel for me? SourceForge seems to be bouncing mail from my handheld as spam again. Thanks... Chris -----Original Message----- From: "Chris Cannam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:20:17 To:"Rosegarden Devel list" <[email protected]> Subject: warnings about JACK Following the discussion about loading plugins over on rg-user, let's add some more helpful warnings for some of the more common problems. I'm sure Michael has suggested some of these before... does this list seem anywhere near complete? - I'm only thinking about things relating to audio here (not MIDI etc). On application startup: - if JACK support is compiled in but JACK can't be contacted on startup, show a warning, with a Don't Tell Me This Again button. (This is the only one of these warnings that should have this option.) When saving a .rg file: - if JACK is in use, record the "expected JACK samplerate" in the .rg file. This is not necessarily the rate in effect when the file is saved, but rather the rate that was in effect when an audio file was last added to the file manager for this composition. If none have been added, it's unknown. On loading a .rg file: - if the file requires plugins or refers to audio files (not just audio tracks?) and JACK is unavailable, show a warning. This warning needs to also warn that if you re-save the file, its previous audio content will be lost. If audio support is not compiled in at all, it should say so. - (else) if the file refers to audio files and the current JACK samplerate differs from the "expected" rate as above, if any, show a warning (with the expected rate in it). - (else) if none of the above warnings has been shown but the file refers to audio files whose rates differ from the current JACK rate, show a warning. (Actually perhaps this one might want a Don't Tell Me This Again?) - if the first of these if/else warnings was not shown and a plugin cannot be loaded, show a warning to that effect (ideally with some actual error information, unlike now!) We also need to add a helpful warning on startup if there's no audiofile importer. Anything else? Chris ------------------------------------------------------- -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
