[LAU] Ideas for LV2

[Lars Luthman]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:12 +0200, Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> > One thought I've had, was asking authors of fine free VST Plugins to port 
> > their effects and/or synths natively to LV2. - But I guess one the first 
> > questions wich come out of the box will be "which gui toolkit can I use for 
> > it?" right after they figured out how jack, jack-midi and alsa midi 
> > works.....
> 
> For me the GUI sounds also like a quite annoying problem - wouldn't it 
> be possible to limit LV2 to one GUI toolkit and then use this for all 
> applications regardless with which toolkit they are written ?
> (E.g. in a separate thread or process - then it would be also possible 
> to use any toolkit you like in the plugin and it is simply started in 
> the host ...)

Yes, it is possible. You can load and run the GTK GUIs in a separate
process and use OSC to communicate with the host, just like DSSI does.


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