Re: [LAD] pyqt vs wxpython for audio apps?

Paul Davis wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Iain Duncan<iainduncan(a)telus.net> wrote: >> Hi everyone, I'm wondering what most linux audio developers think about >> pyqt vs wxpy for writing audio app guis now that qt is gpl'd. >> Specifically I'm interested in tightly controlling the timing of event >> loop ( ie making some accurate external clock source like the csound >> engine be the time boss ) and making decent faders widgets. > > my recommendation is that you rethink whatever architecture you're > imagining. you will not, and almost certainly should not, drive a GUI > event loop from anything audio related. you should (IMHO) be thinkng > about two different loops: a GUI event loop driven by mouse, keyboard > and system time(r|out) events, and an audio engine loop driven by the > "clock" of the audio API (JACK, ALSA, whatever). the GUI doesn't need > tight timing (remember that your display almost certainly only > refreshes at no more than 100 times per second, and quite possibly > more in the range of 60-80 times per second.