[Paul Davis] >this is not an accurate description of the purpose of the port. > > Plugin authors should assume that hosts that care about plugin > latency will read the latency value as often as they deem > necessary. However, host authors should assume that the port > value is only valid after a legal call to run() or run_adding() > (i.e. the plugin is active when run() or run_adding() is > called). > >the latency port was intended to allow sequencer hosts like ardour to >do automatic latency compensation. it was not intended as a static >piece of information.
i've replaced my misleading description with yours. no re-post, but http://quitte.de/ladspa/ladspa.h.diff is up-to-date. tim