[gst-devel] GstController and live updates from user interaction

[Stefan Kost]

Hi Steve,
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 09:51 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> 
>>Now one scenarion ist to run the pipeline and along play back the param changes.
>>Another scenario is that a part of the pipeline runs in a loop and the user 
>>controlls the parameters via GUI. There are two sub-scenarios - just finding the 
>>right setting and recording param changes. The latter is easy, whenever the 
>>widget changes insert a new timstamped control value change. The first is not so 
>>easy. I see two possibillities:
>>* have an 'gboolean active' flag in a controlled property. Whenever the GUI 
>>changes set active to false (temporaily detaching the control-envelope) and 
>>directly setting the gobject-property. Problem here is , when to reattach the 
>>envelope (active=true)?
>>* have a 'GstTimedValue live_value' inside the property structure. Whenever a 
>>widget changes, set this value with timestamp=NOW. The controller will 
>>additionally check this value. For mode 'none' this will work as expected. For 
>>'linear' this will cause a fade towards the next timed value.
>>So its probably better to always return the live_value.value until a new 
>>timestamped value in the envelope has been reached. Then invalidate the 
>>live_value and continue with regular envelope.
> 
> 
> Here is another option - when a widget changes then set the value with
> timestamp=NOW and delete any points after NOW so it behaves like an
> overwrite-and-record mode. This means the value will remain constant
> until they change the widget again. This would be very handy sometimes
> but maybe not always.

Thats exactly how it will behave in recording mode. But when one just wants to 
try out settings, the current envelope should remain unaltered.

Stefan