[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 03.00, chris wrote:
[...]
> What about the User Interface, should a cross platform spec be
> provided for that. It seems to me the UI hasnt been mentioned and
> it strikes me that a cross platform DSP interface without Cross
> platform UI interface is contradictory?

Well, you might think of "audio GUIs" as a special class of GUIs - but 
it's not really helpful to do any serious work based on that view. 
Indeed, you can come up with a GUI toolkit that covers maybe as much 
as 90% of plugin GUIs - but what about the rest...? Sure, you can 
build that on top of a very low level rendering API, but I think some 
developers will chose to use platform specific code and/or their own 
toolkits anyway, for performance reasons.

Either way, how much work should we put into creating something that's 
still not a complete solution? (And we're talking about *lots* of 
work here... A serious GUI toolkit is not a one week hack! ;-)


> Or is this another topic?

Yes. It's pretty much agreed that GUI code can't even be in the same 
binaries as DSP plugins. (Technical issues with some platforms, as 
well as the general usefullness of being able to run plugins remotely 
on headless "DSP servers".)


> Is there a sumarry or list of future topics anywhere online?

Well, it should be in the archive... Look for Ron Kuper's posts, as 
those are the official versions.


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