Re: [linux-audio-dev] (fwd) Unified Audio Plugin Architecture (Meeting)

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] (fwd) Unified Audio Plugin Architecture (Meeting)
From: Sebastien Metrot (meeloo_AT_noos.fr)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 14:34:59 EET


The problem being that vstgui really stinks, most windows/mac people have no
idea about how powerful a gui toolkit can be compared to the native API.
Most people here seem to be used to much more powerful libs like gtk/Qt.
Good point about Gimp though :).

Sebastien

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Harris" <S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: <linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, 09 January, 2003 13:17
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] (fwd) Unified Audio Plugin Architecture
(Meeting)

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:49:19 +0100, Sebastien Metrot wrote:
> > and start to look at the problem? I'm surprised the Gimp people haven't
> > encoutered this problem already.
>
> Well the gimp people all use the Gimp Tool Kit ;)
>
> Its not an insurmountable problem, becasue a generic UI library would most
> likely me somewwhat like libvstgui, which defines an API that pligins use
> to provide controls (in theory). There is an implemntation of libvstgui
> for IRIX + X Windows, targeted against Motif. Its 'just' a case of
> implemting the API in your hosts toolkit and providing that to the plugin.
>
> - Steve
>


New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Thu Jan 09 2003 - 14:35:21 EET