Dispatching messages from juce_xxx_Messaging.cpp

General JUCE discussion
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I’ve patched both juce_win_Messaging.cpp and juce_mac_Messaging.cpp so that they receive events when media is inserted/ejected, but I’m not exactly clear on the best way to get these messages to my app.

I’m currently using

MessageManager::getInstance()->deliverBroadcastMessage(T(“CRDOM_INSERTED”));

which works, but hardly seems ideal. I’d like to be able to send parameters with the message, like I could with Message instance, but I can’t see a way to do it. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Art

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Broadcast messages are for inter-process messages so can’t carry much data.

Why not just make an abstract listener class, let the listeners register with a singleton “disk insertion manager” class, and call them back?

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Thanks for the suggestion, Jules. I was hoping to keep type information from my app out of the juce code to keep maintenance headaches to a minimum.

Wouldn’t a more generic way of handling this be to have JUCEApplication implement MessageListener?

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Can’t see how that’d help. And disk drive notifications have nothing to do with the application object anyway, so it doesn’t belong there. Using listener classes and a manager object that can register them for callbacks is a much neater way of doing things like this, and doesn’t spill over into any other parts of the code.