Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] ladspa GUI round 2
From: STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) ("STEFFL,)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 18:22:08 EEST
> -----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
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