<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 11 May 2019, at 13:15, Roland Bewick wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div><div>On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 4:17 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <<a href="mailto:remi@remlab.net">remi@remlab.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;" class="qt-gmail_quote"><div><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>While it likely makes sense at the level of UI widgets and user interactions, it seems a bit out of place, standing alone, at the player API level.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In particular, I doubt that enabling multiple tracks mode in Qt should interfere with the track selection of, say, the HTTP remote control.<br></div><div><br></div><div>IMO, the API should just take the list of active tracks, whether it be empty, a singleton, or larger.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi, Remi,<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I designed the changes so that none of the current consumers of the API will be impacted.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Enabling dual subtitles will not affect the others (like the remote control or lua scripts), because there is another requirement: to temporarily enable multitrack selection using the new call I added. The UI and hotkeys use this but none of the others do.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I do agree however that your suggestion is more fitting (but require a bit more logic from each consumer that supports selecting multiple tracks)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Make the API simple to maintain, for the core. UI will adapt.<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig60240713"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President<br></div><div class="signature">+33 672 704 734<br></div><div class="signature"> <br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>