[alsa-devel] Query regarding ALSA control interface

[Pharaoh .]

On 7/24/07, Clemens Ladisch <cladisch at fastmail.net> wrote:
>
> Pharaoh . wrote:
> > Now, I have to implement a control which takes four different
> values..namely
> > 0,1.100 and 101. In this case what shoud be the type of control? It
> should
> > be ENUMERATED or INTEGER? I am confused here since the values are not
> > exactly in a range.
>
> An INTEGER control takes numeric values in a specific range, while an
> ENUMERATED control takes values that are not numerically related (but
> that are _internally_ represented as integers in a specific range).
>
> In your case, you'd probably want to use an enumerated control with the
> range 0..3, which maps to the four names "0", "1", "100" and "101".
>
>
> HTH
> Clemens



Thanks Clemens, I had implemented it using  ENUM type. It works.

-pharaoh.