On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM, R. Mattes <rm@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
> That's where the example code is astonishing terse :-) :

Or hidden away on a github repo...
https://github.com/harryhaaren/openAudioProgrammingTutorials/tree/master/pureDataHost

> Frankly, I'd rather write my GUI in Qt (or whatever) and communicate whith
> a headless pd process by means of OSC or even "raw" pd messages.

I have implemented a libPD "front-end", which parses the patch file manually, and creates a canvas
using GANV[1] and GTK. Note this was an experiment, and I'm no longer working on this.
Screenshot link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sbd2uxwa7xtwshr/libpdUiFrontend.png

HTH, -Harry

[1] http://svn.drobilla.net/lad/trunk/ganv