[gmpi] Re: Topic 8: Parameters
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:02:24 -0400
I have tried:
1. Actual blobs.
2. XML-like tagged text.
3. True XML.
4. Numbered parameters.
5. Scripting - the state is a script that you run.
Believe me, scripting is best, and blobs are next best. Scripts, obviously,
are hand-editable. If Python is too much to swallow, Lua probably is not and
there is a good C++ template library for automagically script-enabling C++
classes. Note that Lua was designed specifically for the purpose of
configuring C and C++ code. The Lua runtime is about a 200 kilobyte library.
You can swap Lua interpreters back and forth between DLLs and you can have
more than one of them in a process.
If the script doesn't work, you usually get an intelligible error message
out of the scripting runtime, which gives a stranger a fighting chance to
fix the script.
That leads - off the topic, I suppose - to a proposal, make Lua scripting a
required part of the host and an option for plugins.
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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
Silence, a language for programming music and sound
Available at http://www.csounds.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 8: Parameters
> > > Hrrm, there has to be a better way than just one big state blob.
Yuck.
> >
> > What's so bad about one big state blob?
>
> It just tastes bad. I like the idea that a preset can be XML, and that I
> can go and look at it, I can use standard text tools to get changes in a
> preset (diff), and I can hand edit it, if I want.
>
> I'd like to see projects be XML (or some form of ascii), too. It would be
> so nice to be able to properly revision control my music projects.
>
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