Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] [Jsynthlib-cvs] SF.net SVN: jsynthlib:[1158] trunk/JSynthLib/core

[William Z. <wrz...@po...>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Frankie Fisher <
jsy...@te...> wrote:

>
> .. constant re-querying is a pain in the arse ..
>

How about this: jsl only saves a list of which ports were DISabled, by
name.  (There's a unique name string for each port, isn't there?)  I think
this supports the use cases mentioned above -- jsl picks up all ports with
about spamming user, but hides the ports the user doesn't want jsl to
manage.

I also believe that jsl should be port-agnostic -- if a synth moves to
another port, jsl should assume it's the same synth and not bother the
user.  But there's another problem (maybe) -- what if the user has two
copies of the same synth?  Is that even a problem?

On a related note, I've never liked the GUI.  When I first started using
jsl, I expected something more like Windows Explorer 2-pane view, which
shows folders on the left and files on the right.  In this case, the left
pane would show ports, and under each port would be the synths on that
port.  Ports blocked by the user would still appear, but greyed out.

-Bill Zwicky