[Jsynthlib-devel] Some questions about BankDriver

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

So... I just started trying to make a BankDriver, and I've got some 
questions.

In this case, there's no way to request an entire bank. Instead, you 
have to issue a series of requests for individual patches. I'm sure that 
there are plenty of other devices like this.

First question: Is there some way of "throttling" or flow-controlling 
the sending of requests. If I send out 100 single-patch requests all 
rapid-fire, the hardware device gets confused and doesn't end up sending 
100 single patches. I need to send a request, wait for the patch to 
come, send another request, wait for the patch to come, etc. Is there a 
way to do this?

Second question: Since my bank data is composed of multiple single 
patches, the bank data matches my sysexID from my SingleDriver. So, the 
banks are being recognized as single patches. Do I have to override 
acceptsPatch(Patch p) in my SingleDriver like:

    boolean acceptsPatch(Patch p) {
       return(super.acceptsPatch(p) && p.getMessages().length == 1);
    }

and do similar in the BankDriver? Is there an easier way? The patchSize 
variable would come in handy here, but the patches on this device vary 
in size.

- Joe