[LAU] Ideas for LV2

Georg Holzmann grh at mur.at
Thu May 8 07:40:26 EDT 2008


Hallo!

>>> Yes, it is possible. You can load and run the GTK GUIs in a separate
>>> process and use OSC to communicate with the host, just like DSSI does.
>> OK, I did not know that. But did a host already implement that ?
> 
> As far as I know all current hosts that support LV2 GUIs are using GTK
> themselves, so none that I know of.
> 
>> And would that also work if you need bigger data from an application to 
>> for instance display a FFT of a signal ... ?
> 
> You'd probably use shared memory for that. Or send it as a blob using
> OSC, if it was a one-time thing.

I see - so the implementation of a host might become quite tricky ... ;)

However, I don't want to complain about something - I will maybe look 
into it a little bit deeper in summer ...

LG
Georg



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