Hi Chris, I also agree that option 4 is best. Not just for purely visual reasons, though: it is also that scripts using the sigrok-cli output can make sense of the data. If "regular" MIDI packets are interrupted also in the textual output, such scripts would need to re-assemble the textual MIDI packet output to evaluate them. When using a different annotation class for the interrupting packets, textual processing of the data suddenly becomes a lot easier.
Regards, -Soeren On 2016-09-06 05:46, Karl Palsson wrote: > Chris Dreher <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am looking for some advice on the best option to display >> overlapping packet decodes. See attached mock-up images. >> >> In MIDI, System Realtime packets are allowed to briefly >> interrupt the byte stream of other packets. When the System >> Realtime packet is done, the previously interrupted packet >> continues. Because of this there are several options for >> displaying packets. >> >> Here are some of the options (see attached mock-up images): >> Option 1: let the packets overlaps in the GUI. It's messy >> looking. Option 2: give the System Realtime packets a different >> color. Better but messy. Option 3: show the incomplete parts of >> a packet with a '...' and don't decode it until the end. Option >> 4: put the System Realtime packets on a different line. >> >> Currently, I lean towards Option 4. I know how to code the >> above options. Are there other options? > > Option 4 looks the best to me as well. > > Cheers, > Karl P > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > sigrok-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
