[linux-audio-dev] VST compiled for linux / gui message loop

[jorgen]

fons adriaensen wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:45:21PM +0100, torbenh at gmx.de wrote:
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>>why dont you open a separate display connection for the plugin ?
>>then you can even move the gui updates to a different thread and there
>>you go...
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>>look into gtkplug.c and gtksocket.c on how this works.
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>Does X allow multiple clients within the same process space ?
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>Last time I tried this it failed miserably, but that could
>of course just be the result of my own ignorance...
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It didnt crash for me, but it may depend on the toolkit. I guess the 
host could pass a Display pointer as an option.