On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@autostatic.com> wrote:

On 11/16/2012 04:57 PM, Louis Gorenfeld wrote:

Hi,
I'm the author of a free VST called Digits that has a Linux port.
Recently, I put out a new version that has a full editor GUI, but was
unable to get the GUI to work on Linux because VSTGUI 4 doesn't appear
to have a Linux port.

What do you think the best strategy (fastest, least code changes)
would be to deliver a GUI for Linux users? I see on the JUCETICE site
that there's a VSTGUI 3.0 port, and the old 2.2 VSTGUI that comes with
the VST SDK has at least some Linux support (IIRC). I don't use any
advanced features (just dials, labels, and sliders). Are either of
these good options, and which would be best?

Input from somebody experienced with this would be great.

-Louis

Hello Louis,

You might want to contact Filipe Coelho (aka falktx).

http://forum.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=10231

Regards,

Jeremy

I have some experimental code for VST UIs in Linux (using openGL), it's not ready for release...
I've uploaded a source tarball with a plugin inside, although the UI seems to have some little issues right now:
http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/tmp/3BandEQ-VstTest1.tar.gz

I'll work more on it soon, so for now it can be a "preview" of how it is done.
But in short, it uses something I call "DISTRHO Plugin Toolkit", which similar to Juce can make a single source code compile into different plugin APIs (At the moment LADSPA, DSSI, LV2, VST and Standalone, some better than others).
This plugin uses openGL for the UI, but Qt4 can be used alternatively.

Again, this is very new stuff, not ready for release!