[LAD] XUiDesigner -> create LV2 plugs from scratch

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Yuri wrote:

> Why do you need to design the UI editor from scratch?
>
> There is a very mature and stable software in this field - QtDesigner: 
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdesigner-manual.html

Plugins are special, they share memory space and library symbol space both 
with the the plugin host as well as with any other plugin the host happens 
to be using. Therefore the plugin must be built static. While it is true 
that qt plugins can be built static, may distro repos do not want to do 
this and have a policies against doing such. In a word crash. Using a GUI 
that does not come as a lib, but as part of the plugin and must be 
staticly built is the best way to deal with this. So if any budding plugin 
author asks "which GUI should I use" the answer is generally "not GTK or 
QT."


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Len Ovens
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