[gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation
- From: "Silver Blade" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:16:57 +0100
> this fails what to me seems like an obvious test: is the user more
> likely to specify time as a fraction of a "song", or as a time using
> some of musical metric? i feel the latter is much more likely, and as
> a result that we should avoid the conversion between a normalized
> range value and a metricized value in the common case.
That's a valid point, and the exact point that originally lead me to think
that integers would be better.
But for internal use by host and plugins, fixed or floating-point may be
better.
Bear in mind that this representation of time would probably only be
internal - the user will probably never see it.
At the end of the day, it's a case of what is easier to use. A 64-bit
unsigned integer might just do the job nicely...
-SB
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