Re: [LAD] [ANN] LV2 beta3

From: Dave Robillard <drobilla@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 18:49:53 EEST

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:21 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On 10 May 2007, at 16:10, Lars Luthman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:05 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > Re-parenting can be done using the XEMBED protocol, implemented in
> > e.g.
> > GTK as the Socket and Plug widgets. You need to give the Socket the
> > window ID of the Plug or vice versa, so to do it in DSSI would
> > require a
> > (trivial) extension of the host <-> GUI communication protocol. I did
> > some simple experiments with it earlier and it seems to work fine.
>
> OK, well that's cool then.
>
> It would still suck on windows because processes are very expensive
> there, but that doesn't concern me too much; X servers are not that
> common on windows anyway, so hypothetical DSSI/LV windows UIs could
> use a different mechanism.

Lars' GUI extension is directly embeddable without a separate process or
xembed hacks or anything.

'course it's also GTK only..

-DR-

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