12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
4:25 a.m.
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 09:32 +1100, Loki Davison wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Emanuel Rumpf
<xbran(a)web.de> wrote:
> A simple gui creator is khagan:
> http://khagan.berlios.de/
One word of warning, Khagan hasn't been worked on
in years and really
isn't any good. :) It was my first python app and the code is
horrible. Ingen's internal gui's are really everything you want as
far as control goes. It's much more useful to set up a good midi
binding than make a gui with lots of knobs. Much more usable. Ingen
really is very nice, i've made some very complex patches with it and
using the sub patches / etc you can present only the useful controls
to the user. It really is the way to go. I tried the other option, for
my drum synth project, Smack and found the gui irrelevant. I
originally wrote one in c and then did it using Khagan. Both are less
usable than the in built gui system in Ingen. Learn from my mistakes!
:)
I think we're going to have to disagree about what makes a good GUI.
About 99.9% of VSTs use knobs and sliders, and people seem pretty happy
with them (as I am).
I can't compile Ingen at the moment but if the GUIs are like the
screenshot on the home page (http://drobilla.net/software/ingen/) then I
don't think it is really suitable for ordinary users.
Anyway, I'm going to have a go at the GUI part of an app, as I want to
test out my canvas widget a bit. If it goes well I might add the audio
processing backend.
Damon