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

[torben hohn]

On 19 Oct 2002 09:22:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.

does anything speak against opening a second socket and connecting to X
(so X Server sees two clients) then knowing the ID of the X window the
plugin
window could be swallowed into the host.

use threads for the different gui mainloops.