Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin
From: torben hohn (torbenh_AT_gmx.de)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 21:26:44 EEST
On 19 Oct 2002 09:22:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:37:46 -0700, Josh Green wrote:
> > Please enlighten me, what was the problem then with multiple GUI
> > toolkits? IIRC it had to do with not being able to integrate multiple
> > applications together very well (at least as far as the user interface).
>
> Its to do with the X event loop. Only one toolkit can receive the events
> and the others just sit there. Some tollkits can be made to play nicly
> (eg. GTK1.2 IIRC), but not all, and maybe not in a standard way.
does anything speak against opening a second socket and connecting to X
(so X Server sees two clients) then knowing the ID of the X window the
plugin
window could be swallowed into the host.
use threads for the different gui mainloops.
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