Re[2]: Sequencers
[email protected] Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:57:18 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.octal.devel |
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>> Don't see why the editors should be platform dependant, but anyway... >This idea would seem to be better placed as tieing an editor in with a >propagator, and having extensions on both for similar types, or >something like that. I think the important idea is to view an editor as a UI element, a way to access a sequencer, whereas the sequencer actually does the event-generating. You wouldn't _have_ to make the editors platform dependent, but because of their UI-oriented nature, they're the element most prone to fall into that. If you separate them from the sequencer conceptually, though, it doesn't screw up the whole design if that happens. This is pretty well different from the typical tracker concept that Octal is an outgrowth of, where the user interface to the sequence data is closely tied to its internal representation. Of course, that's just my impression of what the original author was saying, I could be completely wrong.