[kw-pm] wiki etc.
Andrew Kohlsmith
akohlsmith-pm at benshaw.com
Tue Jul 6 09:09:32 CDT 2004
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 09:13, simon-kwpm at uc.org wrote:
> - have a logger that just sits there and listens to all the
> communications that pass through, maybe indexing them for later
> searching
Sounds like that "metadata bus" that there are a few Gnome apps for... that
looks *REALLY* interesting. it kind of passively sits there and watches what
you're doing/typing/looking at and throws up related data it thinks will be
useful. What is that, D-BUS?
> So yes, some sort of format for all this data to float around in would be
> nice. I don't know that I'd want to ever look at the schema, I'd likely
> feel compelled to claw my eyes out afterwards. Maybe encapsulation would
> be a better route...
Good old LDAP issues. :-)
On a low-level note, I was always impressed with how the Scream Tracker .s3m
file format handled this. The file format was something like this (it's been
over 10 years now...)
[file header, magic number, etc.]
[offset to order data]
[offset to pattern data]
[offset to sample data]
...
...
[orderdata section]
[orderdata header]
[order 1]
[order 2]
...
[paterndata section]
[paterndata header]
[pattern 1]
[pattern 2]
...
[sampledata section]
[sampledata header]
[sample 1]
[sample 2]
...
To me, it was brilliant... If you needed to update/expand the format it was
trivial to do so and the format was flexible enough that the player would
just discard extra data (old program, new file format)...
-A.
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