On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Ryan Leavengood wrote: > > Or another approach would be some background daemon that listens for > these MIDI messages and then sends out specific messages to configured > applications. So as long as an application exposes some messaging > protocol it could be controlled with this system. Like if Stephan > exposed the sliders in Wonderbrush with a messaging protocol they > could be controlled with such a system. Wait... what about using the MIDI kit ? > > As for color or font pickers, even on BeOS there were custom color > pickers applications like roColour, and the "BeOS way" was to just > have apps support colors being dragged into them from such apps. As > far as I know, Haiku still supports that (and if not, we can add it.) There is no real specific support on the OS side, the app just happens to understand a particular BMessage format, and the colorpicker happens to send it when you drag'n'drop. So this works safely accross OS releases, as long as BMessages stay around. -- Adrien.