[Jsynthlib-devel] Okay... so why can't I edit a patch with this?

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

This is making me really depressed. I'm trying.... again... to make a 
synthdriver. I figured I'd start with baby steps. All I wanted to do is 
make a driver that can receive  a sysex message and dump it to the console.

Before I even do *that*, I figured that I'd skip the sysex part and just 
try to create a blank patch and then see if I could dump it to the 
console. The dump is supposed to happen when I go to "Edit.." the patch.

So, I made a Device class:

> public class AlesisSR16Device extends Device {
>
>    public AlesisSR16Device () {
>        super("Alesis", "SR-16", "000000000000000E0E000.00........f7",
>              "Let's see how this goes....",
>              "Joe Emenaker");
>    }
>
>    public AlesisSR16Device(Preferences prefs) {
>        this();
>        this.prefs = prefs;
>
>        addDriver (new HexDumpDriver ());
>    }
>  }


Then, I made HexDumpDriver.....

> public class HexDumpDriver extends Driver {
>
>     public HexDumpDriver() {
>         super("Sysex", "Joe Emenaker");
>         sysexID = "F000000E13****";
>     }
>
>     public HexDumpDriver(String patchType, String authors) {
>         super(patchType, authors);
>     }
>
>     boolean hasEditor() {
>             return true;
>     }
>
>     protected JSLFrame editPatch(Patch p) {
>         SysexMessage[] messages = p.getMessages();
>         for(int i=0; i<messages.length; i++) {
>             
> System.out.println(core.Utility.hexDump(messages[i].getData(),0,-1,16));
>         }
>         return null;
>     }
>
>     protected Patch createNewPatch() {
>         byte[] b = new byte[20];
>         for(int i=0; i<b.length; i++) {
>             b[i] = (byte) i;
>         }
>         Patch p = new Patch(new byte[20]);
>         editPatch(p);
>         return(p);
>     }

I overrode editPatch() and I even overrode hasEditor(), but I still get 
no editor choice when I right-click on a new patch that I create.

So... tell me what an idiot I'm being.

- Joe