13 May
2003
13 May
'03
9:34 p.m.
i'm new to this list but tried to catch up by
reading the archives. I'm
currently playing around with a gui-backend based on Qt which uses the
proposed ladspaxmlgui.dtd.
you're the first to do anything with it. just so you know.
First, what is the label intended to contain ?
- the port name
- user definable text
- the port value
the port name.
Second, imagine a normal slider or knob in an everyday
plugin. Surely it is
fine to use the slider/knob to go wild changing the value interactively. But
what if i want to specify a value precisely . Fiddling around with my mouse
until i managed to set the desired value ? What if, even worse, the gui
doesn't snap to my value according to pixel inaccuracy.
it was imagined that this is up to the particular widget to handle in
the "right way". i would rarely (if ever) use a knob widget that
didn't include a numeric display/input field as well, for example. i
don't consider the decision on what type of widget to use to be based
on the required precision: all controllers should (must?) be capable
of arbitrary precision.
however, i would agree that a "numinput" type as an explicit choice by
the GUI designer might not be a bad addition.
just keep in mind that nothing, absolutely nothing, has happened with
the LADSPA XML GUI proposal for at least 18 months, perhaps
longer. there are no plugins with GUIs written using the DTD.