Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Proposal: DeviceDescriptor

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

Rib Rdb wrote:

>Maybe instead of having a ClassName field, DeviceDescriptor should
>have a createDevice(Preferences) method.
>
Ick. I don't really like Preferences much.

>That way the XML driver (and
>any other future driver that supports multiple devices) doesn't have
>to abuse class names or use some other sort of hack.
>
I'm not sure what you mean by "abuse" class names.

>At the moment I
>can't think of a good way to get a DeviceDescriptor from a Java
>driver,
>
My initial thoughts would be that the drivers would have something like:
    public DeviceDescriptors[] getDeviceDescriptors()

Since most of the data items in a descriptor are already fields in the 
device classes anyway, we could probably just add this method to the 
Device superclass and be 95% of the way there.

- Joe