[gmpi] Re: Reqs 3.8 Events - gesture start/end

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:45:28 -0500, Michael Gogins wrote:
> Some plugins will process gestures or generate gestures. It will be much
> better if plugins CAN know everything the host DOES know about running the
> plugin or reading the scores and sequences.

Thats a very sweeping, and to my mind not very accurate statement. I think
APIs that are just sufficient have a better history than those that
attempt to be all-encompasing.

> GMPI shall provide to plugins all information present in scores and
> sequences. This presupposes some agreement as to score and sequence
> representation (extended MIDI, NIFF, Music XML, just a list of possible data
> elements, etc.).
> 
> GMPI shall provide to plugins all data used by hosts to control plugins.
> 
> GMPI shall link gestural data to the note or note to which the gesture
> controls by note ID.

A lot of this stuff will be host-specific, and just irrelevent. Its likly
to lead to the "plugin A works in host X, but not host Y" syndrome.

- Steve

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