Re: [LAU] zita at1

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 10 2010 - 20:12:44 EET

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:56:14PM +0100, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:10:35AM -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
>
> > Looking at the source, the GUI appears to be in Cairo. I dunno anything about cairo, but if it's like most GUI toolsets, you'd have to add a text box in there to type in a value.
>
> Cairo is not a GUI toolset but a vector drawing library. Within the
> application it's used only to draw the line on he knobs. Everything
> else is rendered from precomputed images, and these are made by pycairo.
>

Gotcha, thanks.

Hmm. So, no GTK, no widget sets, just vector drawing primitives. Tight and efficient, but no text boxes either, then, unless someone wants to try to port the thing to GTK/GNOME or whatever.

I've been wanting to play around with this-- our singer would get a kick out of sounding like T-Pain for a song or two--, and MIDI CC's would be my preferred way to control it anyway. Is that on your roadmap for it?

-ken
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