[linux-audio-dev] Re: Hello and Python bindings for LADSPA

[Lars Luthman]

On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:05 +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
> So if i understand you correctly, each host needs to present a
> specific gui for plugins. Doesn't this make ladspa not partcularly
> 'pluggable' if the host needs to know about plugins in the first
> place? I thought the point of ladspa was that you could just install
> third party pluginsand the gui would just work.

It does "just work", you just get generic GUIs instead of
plugin-specific ones. 

There are some "port hints" in the plugin that specify whether a certain
parameter is interpreted as an integer, a boolean, has upper or lower
bounds etc that the host can use to decide whether it should use a
spinbutton or a checkbox or a slider or something else for that
parameter.

You could look at some existing LADSPA hosts with GUIs (e.g. JACK-rack,
Ardour, Om, Hydrogen) to see how they do it.

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