14 Nov
2007
14 Nov
'07
9:14 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:43 +0000, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
David Olofson wrote:
These types of "mini-GUIs" could certainly be useful. My point was that
there is no need for a separate "icon GUI" extension, something like
that pretty much requires a complete widget library to be really useful
anyway and the GTK+ extension already supports multiple GUIs per plugin
and embedding them on a canvas or in its own window or anywhere the host
wants it. The only thing needed to distinguish between small "icon" GUIs
and large "editor" GUIs would be some sort of annotation in the RDF data
(that hosts would be free to ignore if they wanted to).
--ll
Makes sense to me. An "icon" like this
is basically just a small GUI
that doesn't take any user input. (Well, it *could*, but shouldn't
rely on it, as a host really using it as an icon probably wouldn't
care to let it have any input events...)
It could. I'm thinking of more and more examples of use of it:
- amplifier where you can set the amplification factor by just clicking
and dragging on the knob, without opening a full-blown GUI window
- waveshaper which displays the current shaping table (so that you know
on a first glance what kind of shaping is going on)
- envelope icon that displays the actual current envelope shape, not
just a generic ADSR icon :)
- a two-input toggle switch (A/B) which displays which state it's in,
and allows toggling by clicking on the state icon