widget layouts and such ...

[Bullwinkle J. Moose]

Would it not be possible to allow machines to pass a sort of 'user interface 
layout' file to Octal that would explain to Octal how the machine wanted the 
widgets layed out and possibly other stuff to embelesh the Machines UI, and 
Octal could do exactly what was in the lay out file, or ignore it completely or 
any thing inbetween depending on the situation?

In that way, the machines could differentiate them selves with thier User 
interface (so you would know if you were useing Bob's Flanger or Tonm's Flanger 
because of the UI.  Bob and Tom would probably like that.) and Octal could 
ignor that, completly or partial, if need for what ever Octal was doing at that 
time, like docking machine controls or creating custom copntrol pannel that 
looks like your MIDI controler, (So like you have a MIDI controler with a few 
knobs, on screen you have a few knobs in the same arangment an the first knob 
on sceen, and on the MIDI controler contrrols the Rate
on Bob's Flanger, and the second knob on screen and on the contoler controls 
the Rate on Tom's Flanger, and the third one control's the depth for Ed's Delay 
Unit).  That would be kind of neat if you were useing a MIDI controler to 
modify paramiters in real time, but Octol would need to be in control of the 
widgets and thier layout ...

These all might be things that could wait until version 1.5 or 2.0 ...