[LAD] Faust plugin GUI

[Hanspeter Portner]

On 14.07.2017 03:47, Yassin Philip wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I followed up along the "Plugin Programming with Faust" minilac16
> conference/workshop <https://youtu.be/T_1Cobmpc5o> by Albert Gräf, and
> now my dream percussive "kik" plugin is nearing completion :)
> 
> I'm now wondering how to make a nice custom GUI, something sobre and
> classy with maybe a logo ; I'm using QT5 for the generic GUI as this is
> what Albert used in his (quite wonderful I must add) workshop, but I'm
> not set on it.
> 
> At the end of the workshop, Albert shows off the "exercise06" plugin
> (exactly here <https://youtu.be/T_1Cobmpc5o?t=1h18m2s>) and for the
> first time the UI is not generic but custom, but I can't find the
> corresponding code anywhere, and believe me I searched :(
> 
> Can somebody point me in the right direction?

Hi

I don't know any FAUST, but I gladly share some links to threads on the
LV2 mailing list reminding developers why they *should not* use any of
the big toolkits (e.g. Qt, Gtk) to author plugin GUIs [1][2]. Should
save you a lot of pain in the long run...

[1]
http://lists.lv2plug.in/htdig.cgi/devel-lv2plug.in/2016-March/001593.html
[2]
http://lists.lv2plug.in/htdig.cgi/devel-lv2plug.in/2017-March/001755.html

> yPhil
> 
> PS - I had to make some adjustments to follow the workshop : 1-the
> faust-lv2 repo is now at bitbucket
> <https://bitbucket.org/agraef/faust-lv2> and no longer at github like
> Albert says in the video (this one was easy) and 2-the included *.cpp
> files errored, so I had to use the ones from the main faust repo
> <https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust>.
> 
> -- 
> Yassin Philip      New album NOW
> http://yassinphilip.bitbucket.io
> 
> 
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