16 Jul
2019
16 Jul
'19
3:48 p.m.
For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more writing the same code, so I
decided to wrote a Layer for it.
It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a
cairo surface to draw.
Additional to subscribe to and handle events.
I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever
he /she want's with it.
The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features
supported by the layer.
It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier
the process to create nice GUI's.
Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a
single c file.
All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation.
So, here you go:
https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty
20 Jul
20 Jul
3:03 p.m.
Dear Hermann,
let me use your announcement to try sending an email to
the LAD list. Seems like free.fr is now "whitelisted" for LAD,
which allows me to salute your work! Let's make writing
basic and simple software great again! :)
Regards,
Cédric.
On 7/16/19 1:48 PM, Hermann Meyer wrote:
For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more
writing the same code, so I decided to wrote a Layer for it.
It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a cairo surface
to draw.
Additional to subscribe to and handle events.
I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever he /she
want's with it.
The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features supported by the
layer.
It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier the process
to create nice GUI's.
Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a single c
file.
All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation.
So, here you go:
https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty
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7:24 p.m.
Hi Cédric
Well, I must admit that it is grown already a bit, and still is work in
progress.
Things have changed and it is no longer a single header. I've
implemented widgets to be transparent, usage of adjustments and
currently working on proper scaling support modes.
My goal is to implement it as simple as possible, so, that just a
setting is required to decide how a widget is presented on screen, but
allow as well to fine tune anything more deep.
However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here:
https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html
regards
hermann
Am 20.07.19 um 13:03 schrieb Cedric Roux:
Dear Hermann,
let me use your announcement to try sending an email to
the LAD list. Seems like free.fr is now "whitelisted" for LAD,
which allows me to salute your work! Let's make writing
basic and simple software great again! :)
Regards,
Cédric.
On 7/16/19 1:48 PM, Hermann Meyer wrote:
> For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more writing the same code, so I decided
to wrote a Layer for it.
> It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a cairo
surface to draw.
> Additional to subscribe to and handle events.
>
> I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever he /she
want's with it.
>
> The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features supported by the
layer.
> It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier the
process to create nice GUI's.
> Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a single c
file.
> All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation.
>
> So, here you go:
> https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty
>
>
>
11:35 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200
Hermann Meyer <brummer-(a)web.de> wrote:
However, I've setup a online Documentation for
libxputty here:
https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html
regards
hermann
And *that* is the best news of the lot!
So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way
into development.
--
It wasn't me! (Well actually, it probably was)
... the hard part is not dodging what life throws at you,
but trying to catch the good bits.
21 Jul
21 Jul
6:25 p.m.
Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200
Hermann Meyer <brummer-(a)web.de> wrote:
Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation
"afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least
it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about.
However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those
who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be
tricky.
Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE
cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the
way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer.
This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to
CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen
action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be
resized/destroyed and new created.
Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts
to stutter.
However, I've setup a online Documentation
for libxputty here:
https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html
regards
hermann
And *that* is the best news of the lot!
So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way
into development.
28 Jul
28 Jul
11:22 p.m.
Am 21.07.19 um 16:25 schrieb Hermann Meyer:
Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey:
. . . and now the first widgets been implemented, like buttons, sliders,
and a knob. Also a theming engine is in place. A example for how to use
it is in the examples folder.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200
Hermann Meyer <brummer-(a)web.de> wrote:
Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation
"afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least
it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about.
However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those
who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be
tricky.
Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE
cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the
way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer.
This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to
CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen
action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be
resized/destroyed and new created.
Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts
to stutter.
However, I've setup a online Documentation
for libxputty here:
https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html
regards
hermann
And *that* is the best news of the lot!
So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a
very long way
into development.
30 Sep
30 Sep
11:49 a.m.
Am 28.07.19 um 21:22 schrieb Hermann Meyer:
Am 21.07.19 um 16:25 schrieb Hermann Meyer:
In the mean time I've done some more work on this, and added some more
widgets. menus, combo-box, tooltip, label and meter widgets been in
place now. Also I've added a LV2 plugin example which show how easy and
lightweight the creation of a LV2 UI could be.
Yea, and all is documented in the Docs.
https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty
regards
hermann
Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey:
. . . and now the first widgets been implemented, like buttons, sliders,
and a knob. Also a theming engine is in place. A example for how to use
it is in the examples folder.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200
Hermann Meyer <brummer-(a)web.de> wrote:
Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation
"afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least
it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about.
However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those
who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be
tricky.
Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE
cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the
way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer.
This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to
CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen
action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be
resized/destroyed and new created.
Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts
to stutter.
However, I've setup a online Documentation
for libxputty here:
https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html
regards
hermann
And *that* is the best news of the lot!
So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a
very long way
into development.
9 Oct
9 Oct
6:48 p.m.
snip:
. . . and now include a example file-browser which demonstrate how to
create a file picker with Xputty to be used in a LV2 UI. also demoing
the dynamic create/destroy of X11 Window's with the help of the
underling Xputty structure.
https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty
Beside, comments are welcome.
regards
hermann
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