Re: [LAD] How to develop guis for LV2?

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:

>> + The plugins may provide a GUI interface. Its width will be
>> 200, 400, 600, or 800 pixels. Its height will be a multiple
>> of 100 pixels.
>
> I don't get why such restriction is needed.

So that the host application can lay out the plugin widgets cleanly.[1]

+---------+----------+----------+----------+
| Foomatic Synth | Reverb | O-Drive |
| () () ---|---- | --|---- | () () |
| () () [1:Buzz ] | () () | () () |
+--------------------+----------+----------+
| LinuxSampler () () () () () () () () () |
| [16: Piano ] ------|-- () () () () |
| --|------ () () () |
+------------------------------------------+

After reading your comments, I suppose I was thinking of "internal" GUI's
where the widgets are layed out by the host application. For example, if
I was writing an application, I couldn't use zynadd's UI because it's way
to large (both the overall size and the size of the widgets).

I (personally) really don't like having plugin windows flying all over the
place. I think they should be layed out in the host application. (And I
also think they should be widget-toolkit agnostic --
Qt/GTK/FLTK/whatever.)

Thanks,
Gabriel

p.s. I'm still digesting the rest of your post.

[1] After more thought, it would probably be best to drop the 600 width.

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Received on Sun Nov 8 16:15:02 2009