Re: [iiwusynth-devel] Wishes for first stable release

[Peter Hanappe]

Ken Ellinwood wrote:
> My wishes...
>
> I've been playing around with developing a GUI wrapper for the synth using
> tcl/tk.  My approach has been to open the synth using a command pipeline and
> interact with it using the command shell interface.  Two things I had to change
> for this two work are a) put in a call to fflush(stdout) just before readline()
> in iiwu_cmd.c, b) disable the prompt (my wish is for a command-line option to
> set the prompt string).  Re: the prompt -- when provided it should be handled
> using the parameter to readline() and not a printf().
>
> I'll be happy to submit patches for these two changes if there are no
> objections.

Please do send the patches. Both changes are welcome (the printf() of
the prompt is really bad.)

Are you happy with a communication over stdin/stdout or would a TCP/IP
connection be more useful?

Peter


> Ken
>
> --- "M. Nentwig" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Two things we could change without much effort before the first stable
> > release:
> > - File structure: Would it make sense, to move all files, which belong
> > to the iiwusynth executable, into a folder of their own (for example
> > 'application', if no better name is found).
> > - Command line options: 'c' for number of fracments and 'z' for
> > 'bufferz'. Hmmm... For the sake of consistency, should we change -m/-M
> > to -e/-E (for 'Meedee')? :)
> > Now would be a good opportunity to clean that up.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Markus