Re: [iiwusynth-devel] ladcca support

[Josh Green]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 02:34, Bob Ham wrote:
> 
> > On a side note.. I had a look at ladcca. I'm currently adding XML
> > session save/restore support to Swami for the upcoming 1.0 branch. I
> > would really like to see this integrated with inter-app session
> > management. I notice that ladcca has Jack and ALSA sequencer support,
> > but that it also mentions being able to save arbitrary config state. Is
> > this correct? 
> 
> It is indeed.  There's two ways to store data with ladcca.  First is
> giving the server your arbitrary data and letting it store it.  The data
> is indexed with a key.  Here's an example snippet:
> 
>   foo_t foo;
>   cca_client_t * client;
>   cca_config_t * config;
>   config = cca_config_new_with_key ("some data");
>   cca_config_set_value (config, &foo, sizeof (foo));
>   cca_send_config (client, config);
> 
> That will send the data to the server and it will store it for you. 
> This is usually done in response to the server telling you to save. 
> When the session is restored, the server will tell you it's going to
> send you some configs and then it will send back everything you've sent
> it.
> 
> The other way is to just use normal save files.  You tell the server
> that you save your data to a file and when it tells you to save the
> data, it tells you a directory that you can save into.  This is a
> directory soley for that particular client, so you can do anything in it
> to save the state.
> 
> There's a good introduction to how the whole system works here:
> 
> http://pkl.net/~node/software/ladcca-manual-html-split/ladcca-manual_3.html
> 
> Bob
> 
> -- 
> Bob Ham <address@hidden>
> 

Cool, thanks for the info. I wanted to confirm that it would work for my
application, before jumping on it. Cheers.
        Josh