Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Changes to the GenericDevice

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

Daniel Appelt wrote:

> For some reasons your changes give me compilation errors.

Um... yeah. I noticed that. Part of the reason for this is because, when
I made he changes to the GenericDevice, I was also planning on changing
the way patches are decoded from their sysex messages. As it is now,
every subclass of Driver or BankDriver has to manuall remove the 0xF0
and the manufacturer and device ID's from the sysex messages. My plan
was that we could have a variety of "DataModels" that would know how
various manufacturers encode their sysex data... and those data models
would handle all of the stripping of the 0xF0, 0xF7, and any
manufacturer/device ID's as well as decoding the data back into 8-bit
data if need be.

When I presented the idea to this list, it caused a fair amount of
debate, and some devels didn't think it was a good idea, so I didn't
pursue it further. However, it turns out that the changes I made to
GenericDevice rely on these DataModels that I was working on. So, now,
I'm debating whether to just push forward with some next-generation
Device class (which would CO-EXIST with the current one, not replace
it), or whether to alter my changes to GenericDevice to use the old way.

I'll upload a working fix in a couple of days. So, don't panic... yet.

- Joe