9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
8:23 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:49:19 +0100, Sebastien Metrot wrote:
Commercial Software vendor tend to look for pratical
solutions for the
problems at hand (even if sometimes it makes them really overlook some
technical and political point). I would be astonished to see Steinberg
Emagic Digidesign Cakewalk and the others agree on a solution that doesn't
solves this issue. Of course the technical problems posed by the way XWindow
handles it event loop could very well get linux lagging behind which is a
pitty IMHO. Is there anybody here that can touch the XWindow/XFree people
and start to look at the problem? I'm surprised the Gimp people haven't
encoutered this problem already.
Well the gimp people all use the Gimp Tool Kit ;)
Its not an insurmountable problem, becasue a generic UI library would most
likely me somewwhat like libvstgui, which defines an API that pligins use
to provide controls (in theory). There is an implemntation of libvstgui
for IRIX + X Windows, targeted against Motif. Its 'just' a case of
implemting the API in your hosts toolkit and providing that to the plugin.
- Steve