Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ladspa GUI round 2
From: Robert Jonsson (ddskrjo_AT_dataductus.se)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2001 - 23:15:02 EEST
"STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI)" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jams_AT_cs.tut.fi [mailto:jams_AT_cs.tut.fi]
> > Paul Davis <pbd_AT_Op.Net> writes:
> >
> > > if we take this route, we could skip the (quite complicated) task of
> > > implementing backends for the XML spec. people can write
> > their own GUI
> > > "applets" in whatever toolkit they want. then, in the initialize
> > > callback of the plugin, they can fork the GUI process,
> > passing it any
> > > necessary info via exec(2), and presto, we're done. our
> > LADSPA's GUI's
> > > can be as beautiful (or ugly) as their individual authors
> > want them to
> > > be.
> >
> > Would it be possible to supply an X Window or something
> > similar from the host
> > to the plug-in GUI in order to be able to build "racks" of
> > plug-ins in a
> > *single* window? I guess I've realized I don't like dozens
> > of plug-in windows
> > floating around. Not that Reason has anything to do with this :)
>
> yes, an X window can 'swallow' another X window (application), see various
> panels and launchers for example (fvwm has button panel like that)
>
> erik
Yes, this seems like a very nice feature. It would make it possible to group
GUI's in "views".
As I tried to explain in a previous mail this requires that we can agree on a
standard for the GUIs size. Atleast in one direction. This would make it
possible to "stack" GUIs ontop of each other as seen in Reason. If the host (or
rather, the User) wishes to show/hide/regroup guis it would be quite possible.
/Robert
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