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From: darth@athena.mit.edu (Darren T Garnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Sound Input DRVR preferences
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Date: 19 Dec 90 18:39:46 GMT
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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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                        Darren Garnier                
darth@athena.mit.edu                     | Some rise, some fall,
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