Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] dssi plugins / UIs - compiling without ui
From: Janina Sajka (janina_AT_rednote.net)
Date: Sun Dec 19 2004 - 19:49:41 EET
Sean Bolton writes:
> On Dec 17, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Julien Claassen wrote:
> > I've got a question: Could you give an option to the configure
> >scripts (for
> >hexter and the like) to NOT compile the GUIs? I've got a problem with
> >the
> >guis, for I don't have a lot of the graphic devel stuff installed.
> >This would
> >be very kind!
>
> Text-based UIs are possible for DSSI plugins, but nobody had every
> written
> one (as far as I know). So your request motivated me to actually
> attempt one.
> I've got a _very_ rough and minimal start to a readline/ncurses based
> UI for
> hexter. You can try it out at:
>
> http://home.jps.net/~musound/hexter-0.5.7-julien.tar.gz
>
> Start it up with jack-dssi-host (as is suggested in the README), and
> type
> 'help' at the prompt for options. Control-T functions as the 'Play
> Test Note'
> button.
>
> > As to text-based UIs, I've looked into the simple_sampler UI, but
> >don't
> >understand it yet (very much)... :-) I've to continue looking into it,
> >I'm not
> >a very good programmer. But I'll do it!
>
> Part of the reason (aside from lack of time) I didn't implement more in
> the
> text UI, is I'm hoping it might provide a good jumping-off point for
> your
> programming efforts! The structure of the GTK+ and text UIs is
> parallel,
> so you'll have the GTK+ code to guide you.
Have you considered using at-poke to automatically extract data for a
text interface?
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-poke/
Janina
>
> Let me know (off-list) if you have trouble getting this working.
>
> -Sean
-- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)janina_AT_freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
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