Re: [qjackctl-devel] qjackctl & OS X

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

Jesse Chappell wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> 
>>
>> But.. what's really distinctive on this fix? The popup menu on the 
>> right of the Interface combobox is already supposed to show device id 
>> numbers and the
> 
> 
> Sorry Rui, I didn't describe the technical issues fully on that widely 
> distributed email.  It was really quite simple, I changed those '>' 
> buttons from a QPushButton to a QToolButton because on OS X normal 
> buttons that small look like crap and you couldn't even tell they *were* 
> buttons :)
> 

Hmmm... problem with QToolButton is their lack of keyboard navigation by 
default; you can't just tab and have focus into those; real PITA for 
challenged users which find the mouse useless. But that can be arranged, 
setting focusPolicy to TabFocus ...

>> device name. The numerical device id is incidentally the one selected 
>> into the interface combobox text value and passed on to the jackd 
>> command line. Exactly as you pretend. This all has in fact been 
>> featured since qjackctl 0.2.17 release, three months ago, IIRC.
> 
> 
> Again, I'm sorry if I mislead, but the use of a simple numeric ID for 
> the coreaudio jackd backend was not operational on OSX.  The -n 
> parameter for that backend actually expects a special unique ID that 
> must be queried using the CoreAudio API.  This string looks ugly, and 
> for now I had to put it in the InterfaceCombo as is so it could be used 
> for jack startup.  We might consider keeping another data structure 
> around to keep the real device ids needed for the commandline separate 
> from the user visible ones in the combo.
>

I'm pretty sure this hack is pretty good enough, as far as I find it 
hairy to maintain anything between those CONFIG_COREAUDIO #idef's ;)


> Also, a minor point, the coreaudio backend needs to have the -i0 or -o0 
> option on the cmdline if the device in fact doesn't have inputs or 
> outputs (before, they were omitted if 0).
> 

OK.

> 
> Just trying to help....
> 

You're helping a lot, thanks.
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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