9 Jun
2004
9 Jun
'04
10:30 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:18:57PM -0400, Dave
Robillard wrote:
There is chasm both broad and deep between
"plugin, show your GUI now"
and an actual implementation of such functionality.
Even on windows/macos, where the toolkit issues do not exist in the
same way, its still the *host* that creates the top level GUI
resources and integrates them into its own scheme for display
management.
steve knows all too well from the gmpi list just how thorny these
issues are. "let's (gasp!) actually do something that will ge done"
... nice try there dave, but it just *isn't* simple.
The LADSPA XML DTD that was posted/edited/discussed here 2 years ago
would do a lot of what people have described here. But its dead in the
water because it can't do it all. There is no magic bullet here that
does not involve putting a gun to people's head and saying "do things
this way". Oh, and the gun doesn't exist.
--p
I think at this point all we need is a mechanism
for a host to say
"plugin, show your GUI now". (Incidentally what DSSI does as far as I
know, which isn't very much yet). No embedding, no standard widget set,
no crazy event loop stuff. Let's (gasp!) actually do something that
will get done. (Of course noone is stopping anyone from making an
audio-app-gui-widget library, far from it)
Yep. Exactly.