Re: [LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, David Robillard <d@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> FWIW, I would not do this.  The external UI extension is the wrong way
> of going about this, and momentum towards it is very worrysome...  We
> need an abstraction layer (i.e. a library) to provide the ability for
> any UI to be external.  It shouldn't be the host's - and very definitely
> not the plugin's - problem to do this.  It's a difficult problem to get
> just right(*).  Even if it wasn't, we'd end up with the same code
> implemented all over the place, which is an obvious sign something is
> not right...
>
> The right way is for the plugin UI to provide whatever native UI (e.g.
> gtk) it pleases, and a library provides the means to launch it
> externally if the host toolkit does not match.  This way, the host can
> embed the UI if possible (a feature which really is a shame to throw
> away), but anyone can use it externally if this is not possible.  It is
> also possible these days for Gtk to embed Qt, and vice versa, which the
> lib could also do... in short, all the tricky business of using an X UI
> in a Y host, either embedded or externally, needs to be done in one
> place, and done in that one place correctly, so every host/plugin author
> doesn't have to repeatedly deal with the same problems.
>
> After the upcoming LV2r4 (and new librdf-free slv2) is released (soon),
> I will take a stab at making this library.  All the nitty gritty has
> been done by other people already, it just needs to be sanely
> amalgamated.
>
> -dr
>
> (* and it has recently come up that it seems impossible to get certain
> window related things right with the current scheme...)

How would I write an LV2 GUI in python?
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Received on Thu Feb 10 20:15:02 2011