[Jsynthlib-devel] Proposal: PatchNameModel?

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

What are people's thoughts about replacing patchNameStart and
patchNameSize in core.Driver with some interface (PatchNameModel, for
example)?

The problem with the current system is that some synths use
null-terminated strings instead of fixed-length strings. If we had
several different implementations of PatchNameModel like:

    FixedLengthPatchNameModel(int patchNameStart, patchNameSize);
    TerminatedPatchNameModel(int patchNameStart, byte terminator);

Then it could make it easier to accomodate other name-storage methods.

I know that developers can override getPatchName and setPatchName (it's
what I'm doing now). I'm just tossing around some ideas which I think
would clean things up a bit.

If I were willing to do all of the work of converting existing
synthdrivers to something like this, what are people's thoughts about
it? This isn't that different from the idea of having some standard
checksum models (to replace checksumOffset, checksumStart, and
checksumEnd in core.Driver as well).

- Joe