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
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