On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:39:39 +0200, David Olofson wrote: > Anyway, yes, we should use different flags for "silent buffer" and "no > connection". Some plugins might save lots of cycles in process() by > setting up the internals properly at connection time, but they may > not be able to reevaluate that for every process() call. Other > plugins may, as has been suggested before, have special ideas about > what "no connection" means, which are not compatible with the idea of > silent buffers in the input streams. Oh dear. I really dont want to rrake over the old magic silence arguments, I /realy/ dont think its a good idea, its just a haven for bugs and unpredicatable behaviour. Flagging connected/unconected is fine by me, silence detection is not. - Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe