[linux-audio-dev] It's been more than a year... Have things improved?

Taybin taybin at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 8 20:40:00 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 06:16, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > >4-Interface abstraction for plugins.: We all know how our lovely X11..
> > >Steve Harris proposed the use of (rdf was it?),
> > Steve Harris' lib-rdf is available:
> > http://plugin.org.uk//lrdf/
> > but i have not used it and can not say anything useful about it. It is
> > used by ardour though.
> 
> has there been any discussion on using XUL? (http://www.xulplanet.com/), I
> don't know that much about it, but if theres a good clean (playform
> independant) way to embed SVG or OpenGL, it seems to me like it would be the
> perfect way to specify interfaces for plugins, allawing you to do all sorts
> of funky things (and of course, you can always use a rdf datasource if
> you're just doing a simple plugin and want to leave layout, etc to the
> parent app). Also note that with the XUL engine in firebird, its now pretty
> damm speedy.

As far as I know, the only XUL implementation is inside Mozilla. 
Besides that though, I don't think it has the specialized widgets that
audio applications need.

Taybin




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