Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets - files vs. builtin
- From: Robert Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:07:29 -0400
On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Art Gillespie wrote:
Well, I'm all for having a standardized file format. We already have
that (banks are simply a matter of agreeing on another key, no?). I'm
opposed to:
a) hiding presets/banks from the user in an opaque Preferences file
b) enforcing a location for presets/banks
In any case, it's certainly a matter of opinion, and I'm just trying
to express mine (though I'm right in this case)... I thought my point
of view was horribly underrepresented in your overview. :) Thanks
for listening.
*If* we can reliably present an open dialog that only enables preset
files that are
compatible with the selected AU I would be happy to let the user put
them wherever
they want, because they would then be able to spot the ones that are
compatible. If hosts
want to build popup menus/hierarchical menus or whatever they can do
that still by
groveling through directories looking for compatible presets in the
same way the
open dialog does.
All this foo-fah is about making it easy for users and host developers
to
do the right thing.
So I guess this would be Option 0b. Present a smart open dialog that
only shows the
applicable presets in the current folder - others are greyed out.
I would like to prove that this *is* possible before surrendering
though.
I wouldn't know. I don't even have a .mac e-mail address.
Whatever.
Heh... Guess my sense of humor isn't for everyone... what I was trying
to say is that I'm definitely not an expert on all things Mac, sorry
if you took it the wrong way, I certainly didn't mean any offense.
Sorry, it's hard to detect tone sometimes. :-) And I'm no Mac style
guru either - see how
Marc went ballistic with my IE analogy :-)
Robert.
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