Re: induce the MIDI class driver to use a particular icon
Re: induce the MIDI class driver to use a particular icon
- Subject: Re: induce the MIDI class driver to use a particular icon
- From: Pete Gontier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:40:58 -0800
circa 12/21/04 2:31 PM, "Doug Wyatt" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there any way to induce the MIDI class driver to use a particular icon for
>> a device in Audio MIDI Setup? I mean, short of doing something drastic like
>> setting the relevant property myself.
>>
> No. The idea of giving vendors hooks into the class driver at certain points,
> especially after a device is identified, has been kicked around. It might look
> like another kind of driver plugin that the class driver loads. Would you use
> such hooks if they existed?
This is the first time I've wanted to tweak the class driver, and it sounds
like I don't need hooks for this case.
>> Can I even do that as an application as opposed to a driver plug-in?
>>
> Yes. Most of what AMS does can be done by any application that wants to, and
> more -- AMS protects certain propeties that are supposed to only be set by the
> driver, but that's not enforced by the server. I'd discourage people from
> going too deeply into this (e.g. playing around with connections) but in the
> case of a hardware utility that wants to slam its own icon onto a driver,
> that's a perfectly good reason. Just set the property on the device.
Woo hoo. I already have a helper app lying around.
--
Pete Gontier
http://www.m-audio.com/
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