[Linuxsampler-devel] LinuxSampler API

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

Hi!

It's time to design an API for LinuxSampler to allow communication between GUI 
frontends and sampler engine. I would like to hear your opinions about that.

I think the API should be plain C (anybody against that?). The question is 
using only POSIX functions for the communication internally or using more 
sophisticated libraries for that. Marek suggested D-BUS for example:

	 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus

Sending a command from the frontend to the engine would be a simple function 
call for the frontend application, e.g.

	hEngine = connect_to_engine(ip_address, port);
	...
	int res = load_instrument(hEngine, instrument_file, channel);

Whatabout the reversal, e.g when the engine wants to inform the frontend, that 
the voice or disk stream count has changed? Should we simply use normal C 
callback functions?

Comments appreciated!

CU
Christian