[LAD] Portable user interfaces for LV2 plugins

[David Robillard]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 21:45 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2011 19:38:28, David Robillard wrote:
> > The plugin UI provides whatever widget it is natively implemented in.
> > The host requests whatever widget type it is natively implemented in.
> 
> Why widget type/toolkit at all?  If you want to abstract, 
> why not abstract at a lower level?  Make the plugin claim 
> its written for a GL context or X or Win32 or Cocoa (or
> whatever is used on MacOS), and return the relevant context
> id.  Make the host do the same thing.  Make the library mix and
> match at that level (or libraries: it's not like a host
> is changing between X and Win32 at runtime), and gain
> toolkit independence.

That is exactly what I am describing (and have implemented).

The toolkit choice has always been entirely open-ended in the UI
extension.

-dr