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Some clarifications
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In order to implement something like a rocket module there needs
to be a way to iterate the pipes in the stream, and take
owernship of them when not already owned by rocket.
The way rocket's API works is you lookup tracks by name at
runtime. The rocket module will be a meta module that calls into
another module for rendering, arbitrarily configured via a rocket
setting a la checkers::fill_module.
So it won't be until the underlying modules do some rendering
that their taps get their respective pipes established in the
stream. Then the rocket module can look at all the pipes and for
any it doesn't own yet, it can get the tracks for those names and
take ownership while stowing the track handle in owner_foo for
the pipe.
While iterating all the pipes, the pipes already owned will have
the tracks readily available which can produce the values to
stick in the tap.
Something like that anyways, the til_stream_t api changes in this
commit are all preparatory for a rocket module.
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It seems likely that pipe owners will need not only a way to
differentiate themselves via the owner pointer, but also
somewhere to register a pipe-specific reference.
There probably needs to be a result pointer added for storing the
owner_foo when the owner taps, so the owner can make use of it.
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Just some banal paperwork...
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Until now there's just been a forward declared type for
til_fb_fragment_t.stream's type, and it's been completely unused.
The purpose of the stream is to provide a continous inter-frame
object where information can be stored pertaining to the stream
of frames.
Right now, that information is limited to emergent "pipes" formed
by using taps against a given stream. Taps at new paths in the
stream become added as pipes for those paths, with the
responsible tap hooked in as the driving tap. Taps at existing
paths become diverted to the driving taps, enabling potential for
external drivers for tapped variables.
This commit only adds the implementation, nothing is actually
using it yet.
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