Re: Re: Renaming of instances and SubInstances?

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:54:53 +0100, "Kevin Hawkins"
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>- I was trying to draw attention to now and upcoming applications
Stuart -
>of course I assumed everyone knew about yours as they pioneered this
>territory !

Hey, I'm still hoping I can use subaddress values for my modular
applications!!

Incrementing the DeviceID field for each module is a wee tad clunky as
it means I have to adjust all my other apps to leave some room around
each DeviceID, rather than just setting the one application instance
and disregarding the number of plugin modules. I now leave distinct
ranges for my DeviceID values so that there's less risk of overlap,
but I need to establish a system of numbering as a consequence.

>Actually I have a question - a very fundamental one - came from a
remark
>James made - given that I have a device say
>
> acme.xapper.downstairs with 2 outputs that control lights
>
> acme.xapper.downstairs:TableLamp
>and acme.xapper.downstairs:CentreLight
>
> which do people feel is right within a Body section called output
>say
>
>output <<< This is how most people seem to go now
>{
>device=TableLamp
>state=ON
>}

Why do you specify the device in the message body rather than use the
target field?

> Bearing in mind the ordering of name value pairs is not defined -
>and indeed is reordered by some hubs currently ;-)

<Stuart waves at Kevin The Comedian ... he's funny he is!>

S
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