Re: Newbie AU questions
Re: Newbie AU questions
- Subject: Re: Newbie AU questions
- From: Bill Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:31:04 -0700
on 13/9/02 4:03 AM, Paul Kellett wrote:
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Sorry if these have all been asked before, I haven't found much in
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the archives yet...
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* How do I kill the coreservices daemon? (as an alternative to
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rebooting, which seems much slower on 10.2 than 10.1 was).
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Presumably hosts like Logic will scan for plug-ins on startup
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rather than relying on the user to reboot after installing
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them?
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sudo ps x (to get the process ID of the coreservices-d)
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sudo kill P_ID
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* Should I register a manufacturer ID with Apple? If so, how?
Ideally - an id that contains ALL lower case characters is reserved for use
by apple (So your ID could be ACME, Acme, aCME, etc but NOT acme)
Not sure actually where you register the ID however...
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* Is there a standard for conversions between floating and fixed
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point audio? For example should 0.5f convert to a 16-bit level
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of exactly 0x400? My first AU will be a test signal generator
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so it would be nice to get the levels exactly right.
Yes - the AudioConverter does this correctly (and very efficiently) - I'd
recommend using that API to do this
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It took this newbie a while to work out that a CFBundle was the
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whole folder of stuff that had to be copied into Plug-Ins/Components
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folder rather than a single file! I'm sure I'll be back with more
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questions when I've waded through the rest of the examples...
Good point - we should probably document this
Bill
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Paul.
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