Subject: Re: [ecasound] MISC: Of dump-commands
From: Kai Vehmanen (k@eca.cx)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 13:20:21 EEST
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, janne halttunen wrote:
> SWIG was most suitable for binding C-stuff.
[...]
> SWIG, on the other hand has support for multiple scripting
> languages. (including Perl) There supposedly are some plans to
> expand the C++ support in future versions.
Hmm, maybe we'll use SWIG to create wrappers for the C-API. :)
> While I was exploring the possibility of a Qt-ui for Heteca, I
> found that there's one bindings-generator that's specifically made for
> C++ and Python, called SIP. (the PyQT/PyKDE bindings are done with it)
This really is promising as Qt is one huge C++ library.
>> Thoughts; what would be a good subset of libecasound functionality?
> The main thing in my mind is quick access (minimal/no parsing) to
> ecasound variables, like: engine status, aio-positions and cop-values.
> The dump-commands help, but I'm thinking the position-slider should
> rather be sliding than jumping. :)
I guess the current selection of dump-commands would be a good start,
ie. have C-equivalents for them.
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