15 Nov
2004
15 Nov
'04
9:56 a.m.
Mathias Lundgren:
sön 2004-11-14 klockan 02.21 skrev Ivica Ico Bukvic:
MusE also has a framework for creating custom Qt UI:s for LADSPA
plugins. This means you can create a gui in Qt-designer, f.ex. name it
1050.ui (1050 == Freeverb), and put it in MusE's shared plugin
directory, which is checked on startup. If there's no 1050.ui-file there
when you launch the Freeverb plugin, it goes for a standard gui,
otherwise the custom one is initialized.
You simply give all input widgets in the gui, that manipulate a LADSPA
parameter, a name starting with "P", and set the id-property of the
widget to the parameter index of the plugin. The connection is done
automagically and there's no need to recompile the app. In fact, you
don't even need to write any code yourself to create a custom LADSPA
gui.
This is a great idea, where it should be easy to make a general
library for other hosts (not necesarrily running Qt) making use
of those UI's with the help of some ipc-tricks.
The great question is: Does there exist many ladspa-ui files?
In case there are, the motivation to make such a library is quite high.
Mathias, I have CC this to the dev-list. If you answer, please
only use the dev-list.
--
According
to the website, LADSPA will not be supported because of UI
issues.
While we're talking about LADSPA UI stuff, has there been any progress on
this matter? News like this one obviously point to the LADSPA's currently
greatest weakness of not endorsing any of the UI's and/or not having a
standard one to go by. At this point perhaps I should make a quote from the
Half-Life game, "it's time to choose Mr. Freeman..." :-).