Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mustajuuri -> LADSPA plugins.
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 03:13:50 EEST
>I'm thinking along the lines of something that's more code and less
>XML; a separate GUI plugin that implements a DSP plugin's custom
>widgets on top of a simple canvas style API.
>
> High level rendering API:
> * Blit images (files specified in the XML)
> * ???
>
> Mid level:
> * Lines
> * Filled rectangles
> * Filled polygons
> * ???
>
> Low level:
> * Pixel access via RGBA buffer (auto conversion)
>
> "Direct" rendering:
> * Fast pixel access using screen format
with all due respect, and i wish i could think of some other way to
say it, i think this is bullshit.
you're talking about reimplementing everything that Motif, Xt, GTK+,
Qt, FLTK, XForms and many others have done. this is just absurd.
if you want to do something like this, then reimplement libvstgui,
which seems to be pretty adequate for the win/mac VST plugin
crowd. but please, lets move forward along the time arrow of software
development, not back or sideways by reimplementing stuff thats been
implemented dozens of times already.
IMHO. IMHO.
--p
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