darth@athena.mit.edu (Darren T Garnier) (12/20/90)
Hi again,
I'm still on the track of writing a sound input driver for
serial port sound digitizers, and happily I'm almost done. I can
record sound (sychronously only for now, this will change as soon
as I digest the Zilog SCC manual) directly from the Sound CDEV. I have
another question though.
How should I save my preferences, selected by the user in the options
dialog? Ordinarly, a driver would have a CDEV to set the options and
change them from it, but since you are already in the Sound CDEV you can't
do this. I also thought about putting something in the System file, but
this is a bad idea because the sound input drivers have dynamic reference
numbers (at least Apple's does <<starting at 48 it looks for an open space in
the unit table, check out ptch 43, neat trick guys>>). So, I could try to
remember the init file that I loaded the DRVR from, or maybe make a pref
file. I seem to remember something about sys7 having a pref folder? How
does this work? Is there a standard way of doing this? Seems to me, there
should be. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks again.
Darren.
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