Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Project: modular synth editor
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 20:46:00 EET
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:05:15PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> >From: "Dave Griffiths" <dave_AT_pawfal.org>
> >
> >I'm currently working on an opengl user interface for a game I'm writing.
> >Once you get a scenegraph set up (so child widgets inherit parent
> >transforms etc) it's not too hard to get something working.
>
> What would be that "something"? Not much?
>
> I recently proposed that GDK/GTK should be extended with OpenGL widgets
> so that there are no two distinct systems a developer have to use.
> It simply does not work if a developer has to write, e.g. menu
> routines from scratch.
>
> Converting a large GTK application to use OpenGL widgets would then be
> an easy task.
Nice Idea. FWIW you can currently mix OGL and GTK quite easily using the
OGL embedding GTK widget.
True writing text-based things in OGL is painful, but anything involving
pixmaps is very easy. and plugin UIs appear to mostly be pixmaps.
- Steve
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