[linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:20:49PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> On Saturday 01 March 2003 17.12, Simon Jenkins wrote:
> [...]
> > >then these components must be built of other components...
> > >i dont see a reason why one wants a big complex component
> > >if it could be built from smaller components...
> > >(other than performace)
> >
> > Absolutely they must be built out of other components. The question
> > is: who does the building? I'm saying that the plugin designer
> > should be able to present a complex "plugin" which is actually a
> > ready-connected graph of simpler components. The alternative is for
> > the plugin designer to present a "bag of bits" for the user to
> > connect together.
> 
> If we do this on the right level, we can have both. We definitely 
> should have a standard graph description (and preset) file format 
> anyway, and all we need is a way for plugin authors to provide useful 
> subgraphs with their plugins.

did you specify a serialization method on the plugins ?
how will this be handled ?

> 
> As to user interfaces, this is where many->one and one->many 
> (DSP->GUI) gets in. You might want to have a single "panel" for a 
> mixer, even if it's constructed from multiple DSP plugins.

This is already implemented in galan and i find it very
nice...

I have been talking with a friend about the gui issue...
and he said that an interface which lets the plugin return
a bitmap would do the trick to make it toolkit independent...


we could add some sort of slider interface also but
this was not the issue...

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torben Hohn
http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language