[gmpi] Re: 8a.0 What is a Parameter?

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:01:36 +0100

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:49:55 +0200, Frederic Vanmol wrote:
> > seconded. its a major difficulty with supporting complex LADSPA
> > plugins: generating a generic GUI is more or less impossible (steve's
> > "hermes" plugin has more than 50 parameters IIRC ...)
> 
> I don't really understand. Why do you need better generic interfaces for 
> plugins? If a plugin is complex, the author should provide an interface for 
> it, in my opinion.

That was the point, I only wrote hermes to highlight the lack of
standardised UI spec for LADSPA ;)

An alternative to giveing each parameter a clump id would be to name them
with paths, eg. "lfo_1/frequency", which allows parameters in different
clumps to have the same name. But thats a much too low level discussion -
sorry!

- Steve

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