[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:24:58 +0100

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51 +0200, Koen Tanghe wrote:
> That's why I also think Jack O'Quin's proposal (gmpi_encode_midi_exact and
> approx) seems more appropriate:
> - we won't have MIDI bytes flowing around for nothing in the future
> - the people who really need the MIDI bytes will be able to do what they
> want (and only they will need to do the conversions)
> - we encourage people to use the GMPI messaging protocol

+1, its especially easy to deprecate in the future (when GMPI 1.1 does
away with this ;) as the function will just return NULL (or the euivalent).
And in the short term its more effecient as hosts that want to support it
can keep the MIDI around, but dont have to send it to every plugin.

- Steve 

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