I agree that GUI is beyond scope of the spec. The control scheme should be rich enough to support any kind of GUI. ============================================ Michael Gogins gogins at pipeline period com Irreducible Productions CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/ ============================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: [gmpi] Re: Requirements > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:02:20PM -0700, Mike Berry wrote: > > >>>GMPI must define a 'chromed' UI mechanism. Hosts must support this. > > >> > > >>What is a 'chromed' UI mechanism?, can we elaborate? > > > > > > > > >Tim means the kind of GUI most of you are used to, contrasted with the > > >generic GUI built if a VST plugin has no editor, or for all LADSPA > > >plugins (as two contrasting examples). it means, most of the time, a > > >GUI based on pixmaps rather then generic GUI widgets, and typically > > >requires custom images etc. > > > > > > > Whoa there...... where did this requirement come from? > > Early discussions before we decided to ignore UI for the time being. It's > drawing layered pixmaps of some sort. > > Do we want to make this a non-requirement? > > -- > Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use, > suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books. Cause and effect, > or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list > Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the > following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own > words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not > redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi > Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe