add new API to Route to get name of "well-known" nth-send

Route::nth_send() has the wrong semantics in Mixbus for this purpose. Probably
need to revisit this at some point

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/ardour/ardour/route.h b/libs/ardour/ardour/route.h
index 864ae911e5..edad4fd266 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/ardour/route.h
+++ b/libs/ardour/ardour/route.h
@@ -562,6 +562,10 @@ class LIBARDOUR_API Route : public SessionObject, public Automatable, public Rou
          */
         boost::shared_ptr<AutomationControl> send_level_controllable (uint32_t n) const;
         boost::shared_ptr<AutomationControl> send_enable_controllable (uint32_t n) const;
+        /* for the same value of @param n, this returns the name of the send
+         * associated with the pair of controllables returned by the above two methods.
+         */
+        std::string send_name (uint32_t n) const;
 
         void protect_automation ();
 
diff --git a/libs/ardour/route.cc b/libs/ardour/route.cc
index 9f29dbad75..6effb27fc4 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/route.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/route.cc
@@ -5551,3 +5551,23 @@ Route::send_enable_controllable (uint32_t n) const
 	return boost::shared_ptr<AutomationControl>();
 #endif
 }
+
+string
+Route::send_name (uint32_t n) const
+{
+#ifdef MIXBUS
+	if (n >= 8) {
+		return string();
+	}
+	boost::shared_ptr<Route> r = _session.get_mixbus (n);
+	assert (r);
+	return r->name();
+#else
+	boost::shared_ptr<Processor> p = nth_send (n);
+	if (p) {
+		return p->name();
+	} else {
+		return string();
+	}
+#endif
+}