29 Jun
2005
29 Jun
'05
1:10 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:46:55AM -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
On 6/28/05, Olivier Guilyardi <ml(a)xung.org>
wrote:
Yes, and you'd force the widgets to update for each message sent by
a knob, even if there are 1000 such messages per second, which is absurd
and could easily freeze the entire application.
It's also not a general model. What if you want to link to GUIs, or
two HW controllers ?
The association should be done in the 'server' part of the model, i.e.
that part which provides the interface to all controllers and viewers.
In the MVC structure, a GUI is just a controller/viewer as any other.
It does not play any central role.
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FA
I believe there could exist a library with which
:
1 - you instantiate a core object (providing the alsa midi port as an arg)
2 - you "attach" to some widgets : sliders, spin buttons, etc.. (note that
this
is different from extending (bloating) widgets)
3 - you may call a function to enter the capture-mode
4 - 100 % of this capture-mode is encapsulated by the library : knobs-to-widgets
assignations are handled transparently
5 - there is some way to retrieve these assignations to recall them later
You seem to really like this idea. Why don't you just do it and see
if it works well? I have an unfounded hunch that it won't, since you
usually want your GUI running in a lower priority thread.