24 Mar
2012
24 Mar
'12
9:58 p.m.
Although it
involves the mouse, what I'm trying to achieve is not
exactly UI related.
The plugin I have has two output called X and Y.
When the mouse is at the bottom left corner of the screen, X and Y are
equal to 0.
When it's at the top right corner, X and Y are equal to 1.
The design I had in mind was to have a thread on the side that would
query the mouse position every 25ms, especially to avoid having it in
the method processing the sound itself (this create a lot of XRuns
when I do that).
You seem to have some ideas about UIs and plugins that are severely
divorced from reality, at least for LV2 (but any working audio program,
really). I will not mince words here because I think the point isn't
getting across very well:
The UI and plugin are COMPLETELY separate and communicate via ports.
They shouldn't be in the same library, and they might not be in the same
process, or even on the same machine. If anything you do in your UI
could possibly cause XRuns something is VERY DEEPLY WRONG. I hope it is
obvious that the UI and the DSP do not run in the same thread. Saying
things like you want a thread to poll X cursor position to avoid doing
it in the sound processing function is a five-alarm siren and red
flashing WARNING sign that something is WAY off here. Of course you
can't do X things in the audio thread!!! Holy crap!