[linux-audio-dev] dssi plugins / UIs - compiling without ui

[Janina Sajka]

Sean Bolton writes:
> On Dec 17, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Julien Claassen wrote:
> >  I've got a question: Could you give an option to the configure 
> >scripts (for
> >hexter and the like) to NOT compile the GUIs? I've got a problem with 
> >the
> >guis, for I don't have a lot of the graphic devel stuff installed. 
> >This would
> >be very kind!
> 
> Text-based UIs are possible for DSSI plugins, but nobody had every 
> written
> one (as far as I know).  So your request motivated me to actually 
> attempt one.
> I've got a _very_ rough and minimal start to a readline/ncurses based 
> UI for
> hexter.  You can try it out at:
> 
> http://home.jps.net/~musound/hexter-0.5.7-julien.tar.gz
> 
> Start it up with jack-dssi-host (as is suggested in the README), and 
> type
> 'help' at the prompt for options.  Control-T functions as the 'Play 
> Test Note'
> button.
> 
> >  As to text-based UIs, I've looked into the simple_sampler UI, but 
> >don't
> >understand it yet (very much)... :-) I've to continue looking into it, 
> >I'm not
> >a very good programmer. But I'll do it!
> 
> Part of the reason (aside from lack of time) I didn't implement more in 
> the
> text UI, is I'm hoping it might provide a good jumping-off point for 
> your
> programming efforts!  The structure of the GTK+ and text UIs is 
> parallel,
> so you'll have the GTK+ code to guide you.


Have you considered using at-poke to automatically extract data for a
text interface?

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-poke/

				Janina

> 
> Let me know (off-list) if you have trouble getting this working.
> 
> -Sean

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