[gmpi] Re: Requirements
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:01:40 -0500
Just a heads-up: the major problem with plugin GUIs is not the GUI toolkit
(which can be pretty much anything) but how different hosts and platforms
handle hosting the plugin GUI as a sub-window, child-window, or control that
shows up where, and acts how, the host decrees.
To do this in a cross-platform manner, GMPI would have to abstract the
notions of parent window, child window, event filtering, key mapping, idle
processing, and so on.
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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/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:51 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Requirements
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0500, RonKuper@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I don't think GMPI needs a UI toolkit, at least not in version 1.
However,
> > it at least needs the ability for a host app to display a graphical
editor
> > (if the plugin has one), just as all commercial plugin formats allow
today.
>
> How can we do cross-platform GUIs unless the GUI toolkit is defined?
> I'm not a GUI person, historically, so I don't know how they work too
> deeply.
>
> --
> 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?
>
>
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