Posted by: Chirashi
Does a Layout editor exist? - 23/02/2003 13:51
Has anyone written an editor for the Audio Receiver Manager layout files? I just saw the specs here
http://www.differentpla.net/~roger/empeg/receiver/layout/
and was thinking of making one.
Would anybody find this useful?
Posted by: Roger
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 04:08
I don't believe that one exists. If you were to write one, that'd be great. I think people would be pleased to see one.
Posted by: Chirashi
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 11:28
There might be a catch though...
It would be Windows only.
I just got my Receiver last week and have only been looking
into this stuff for the last few days and it seems like
there are a lot of Linux users. Would Windows only be
a problem?
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 11:43
Would Windows only be a problem?
Only in the sense that the resulting layout file must be properly Tar'ed into the receiver tarball, and I don't think there's a Windows program which handles that aspect of it properly. I seem to recall that there's some kind of a versioning resource that needs to be made part of the tarball, and I think only Linux programs currently handle that.
At least, that's the way I recall it. I could be wrong. I have exactly enough Linux knowledge to make me dangerous. Can anyone else give better information on that?
Posted by: Roger
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 11:46
resulting layout file must be properly Tar'ed into the receiver tarball
No it musn't -- it's served from the HTTP server.
Posted by: Chirashi
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 17:41
The only reason I think it might be a problem is if
the majority of users are on Linux. As far as I can
tell, at least on Windows, it doesn't need to be tar'd
into anything. As long as I follow the specs for the
file, it should be ok. But if most people don't use
Windows, then there really is no point. Other than
gratuitous self satisfaction(hehehehe)!!
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 21:00
Oh, OK cool, so it's a loose file that doesn't get downloaded to the player as part of receiver.arf. I thought it was. Okie day.
Posted by: audin
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 24/02/2003 22:50
If you don't do anything out of the ordinary then your program will quite likely run under Wine...
Posted by: nightingales
Re: Does a Layout editor exist? - 28/08/2003 12:54
Have you started with the project yet? Or did you give up? Sounded kinda interesting...
(another LooseDows user)