Global stop and play button to start/stop all clients

[newlaurent62]

If you want to change jack settings, it's a good idea for some applications, to close them before changing jack settings.

So it will be nice to have a start button to start all remaining applications in one go as well as stop/save and stop/abort buttons for all clients currently started without closing or abort the session.

That would allow to abort or close all remaining clients without executing the close.sh/load.sh session ray-scripts. It may be a good idea to let decide the session if these operations (start/stop all remaining clients) are allowed (regarding the ray-scripts behavior). For example, attribute to raysession xml element could be added:

<RAYSESSION VERSION="0.9.0" name="Jamulus" 
    stop-abort-all-allowed="true|false" 
    stop-save-all-allowed="true|false" 
    start-all-allowed="true|false">

[Houston4444]

Sorry, I don't want to add this to the GUI, because most users wont have to use it, and a lot of them will use it in wrong situations. I think it will gives more confusion than a real nice feature. It is not a big thing for user to (save and) stop all clients. Those who know JACK a minimum know that they have to stop the programs before restarting JACK.

However, it is very easy to script this action, something like:

ray_control save

for client_id in $(ray_control list_clients started);do
    ray_control --detach client $client_id stop
    sleep 0.1
done

# wait 5s client stopping
i=0
while [ -n "$(ray_control list_clients started)" ];do
    sleep 0.5
    i=$((i+1)
    [ i -ge 10 ] && break
done

# kill still alive clients
for client_id in $(ray_control list_clients started);do
    ray_control client $client_id kill
done

Maybe such scriptable actions could be launched via GUI menu, but clearly not brought to the fore. The per session possibility to do that is IMO overrated.

[newlaurent62]

Yes scriptable actions could be useful.