[linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Oct 19 04:26:01 UTC 2002


On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:37:46 -0700, Josh Green wrote:
> Please enlighten me, what was the problem then with multiple GUI
> toolkits? IIRC it had to do with not being able to integrate multiple
> applications together very well (at least as far as the user interface).

Its to do with the X event loop. Only one toolkit can receive the events
and the others just sit there. Some tollkits can be made to play nicly
(eg. GTK1.2 IIRC), but not all, and maybe not in a standard way.

- Steve 



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