SysexGetDialog (Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Behringer V-Amp 2 Support)

[Hiroo H. <hir...@co...>]

Jeff> I think I've written enough drivers/editors now to
Jeff> have a fair basic understaning of how they work but I
Jeff> don't fully understand why they were designed to work
Jeff> the way they do.
Jeff> 
Jeff> For instance here's one thing that I have never
Jeff> understood. When you pull up the Get Patch dialog and
Jeff> make your selections you're telling JSL which driver
Jeff> and patch you want to request. When you hit the get
Jeff> button, the selected driver sends the request to the
Jeff> device and the device sends back the requested patch.
Jeff> Then JSL searches through all the currently configured
Jeff> drivers to try to figure out which driver the patch
Jeff> belongs to. Why is this necessary when I just told it
Jeff> what driver the patch belongs to?

Good point. This is one of many reasons we made IPatch* interfaces. If
your driver implements IPatchDriver interface directly instead of
extending Driver class, it can bypass the unnecessary driver search.
-- 
Hiroo Hayashi