[Dev] gui instance host question

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Jamie Bullock <jb at integralive.org> wrote:
[..snip..]
> The *bridge* should be viewed as working on *behalf* of the Instance
> Host. The instantiation messages etc, always go to the IH, and then the
> bridge does the actual work. However, as I mentioned above, I'd like to
> provide a number of interfaces to the IH to make it nice and flexible
> for devs.
>
> Does that make sense? Does it answer the question?

Thanks!  I won't cite your whole message but it definitely clarified
some things for me.

The idea of OSC being a redundant communication channel was sort of
what I suspected, but I had to confirm it.  I like the idea very much.

If we implement a C api in the same style as the OSC api, would the
instance host then take care of synchronizing with the other instance
hosts?  It would have to send OSC to the other instance and module
hosts on the behalf of the caller.  Or would the communication just
take place through the database?

By the way, does the "currently edited" piece live always in the
database or is it edited in memory and saved to the database on user
demand?

I guess these last two questions are actually the same question.  I
wonder if an Integra GUI could be constructed that in fact works
entirely over the web with AJAX...  that would be insane.

Steve