[gmpi] Re: 3.11 Wild cards in strings

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Andy C wrote:
> > A sample player.  One parameter is the filename to load.  The plugin can
> > handle wav and aiff files.  The file-open dialog should use the mask
> > "*.wav,*.aiff".  If the host is responsible for the dialog, it needs to
> > know that mask.
> 
> Yes.  The host needs to know the mask we agree on that.  However, unless I'm
> missing something, the plugin isn't going to change the files it can accept
> ?  So the conversation between the plugin  and  the host should only happen
> when the plugin is loaded into the host ?  Hence I'm not sure it needs to be
> a parameter but in whatever mechanism we use to load the plugin.

I was saying that the mask would be meta-data about the string parameter.  

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