[Denemo-devel] A Plan for JACK in denemo

[Richard Shann]

I have fixed a serious bug in the device_manager.c that was corrupting
the view widget (it was being passed as if it was the treestore). This
may be enough to prevent the crashes. But I think a lot of complication
should be stripped out. I will not have time to work on it this week
but 
what I suggest is that we keep it simple at first:

No starting/restarting jackd - if it is not running set up a flag to say
so and do not do any jack things - just let the user set up the
device/client list in prefs.

If jackd is running
The Denemo prefs are read to find the user's client and port names and
numbers. These are used to populate jack at the point **** below.


int
init_jack(void){
  int err = 0;
  create_jack_midi_client();******** populate all clients from
Denemo.prefs here

  input_port = jack_port_register(midi_device[0].jack_client,
INPUT_PORT_NAME, JACK_DEFAULT_MIDI_TYPE,
                          JackPortIsInput, 0);
 ...

The user is responsible for the Denemo.prefs making sense - i.e. they
have to assign client and port numbers that do not overlap. The user
gets told if they have used the same client/port number twice.

If there are no device/client prefs, nothing is registered, the only
thing the user can do is go to the prefdialog and define some.

In the prefdialog, all that is done is write Denemo.prefs. So the user
has to quit and re-start denemo to get jack working with the new prefs.
(Very crude, but simple, we can improve it later)


At this level of simplicity it should be possible to track down any
bugs. If you have time to work on this Jeremiah, please do, as I shall
be very busy all week now.

Richard