[LAD] Portable user interfaces for LV2 plugins

[Olivier Guilyardi]

On 03/04/2011 03:40 PM, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> 2011/3/4 Olivier Guilyardi <list at samalyse.com>:

>> But LV2 is extensible. So what I think is that in addition to the extensions
>> which imply UI/engine separation (and I understand that it's important in many
>> cases), there should be a DoWhatTheFuckYouWantInYourPlugin extension ;)
>>
>> With such plugins, restoring/saving state would rely on passing a blob in
>> addition to restoring/saving the control ports values. There would be no such
>> thing as UI/engine separation. The plugin would be self contained. And hopefully
>> it would integrate nicely with other extensions such as midi.
> 
> Actually control ports do not define the state alone, the state also
> includes plugin-specific data (the stuff the LV2_Handle thing should
> point to) - and that is generally a binary blob anyway (unless you do
> some other kind of storing/restoring, like with key/value pairs,
> etc.).

Thanks for clarifying that..

But does this mean that LV2 already support what I explain /with/ existing
extensions?

>> I think that this extension, since it would only imply simple but powerful
>> primitives, would give a lot of freedom to developers who want that, and at the
>> same time be rather easy to maintain.
> 
> Why do you hate yourself so much?
> 
> /me buys popcorn and waits for Dave to bash you hard. :-)

I'm sure he wouldn't. Otherwise, my patch to remove this glib dependency may
never be submitted ;)

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  Olivier