16 Jul
2006
16 Jul
'06
12:28 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:05 +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
So if i understand you correctly, each host needs to
present a
specific gui for plugins. Doesn't this make ladspa not partcularly
'pluggable' if the host needs to know about plugins in the first
place? I thought the point of ladspa was that you could just install
third party pluginsand the gui would just work.
It does "just work", you just get generic GUIs instead of
plugin-specific ones.
There are some "port hints" in the plugin that specify whether a certain
parameter is interpreted as an integer, a boolean, has upper or lower
bounds etc that the host can use to decide whether it should use a
spinbutton or a checkbox or a slider or something else for that
parameter.
You could look at some existing LADSPA hosts with GUIs (e.g. JACK-rack,
Ardour, Om, Hydrogen) to see how they do it.
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