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On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 13:43 +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

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> On 03/04/2011 01:04 AM, David Robillard wrote:

> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 11:04 +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

> >> On 03/03/2011 01:25 AM, David Robillard wrote:

> >>

> >>> Anyway, I'd actively like to see GL UIs, since I have a host that's a

> >>> modular canvas and you could do some pretty awesome things there - but

> >>> that doesn't mean I think high performance waveforms and visualizations

> >>> and whatever is important, or anything but fluff...

> >> Do you have a practical example of a plugin with a GL UI that would work nicely

> >> in Ingen?

> >

> > Like.. an actually existing one? No, as I said, nobody has done the GL

> > UI thing yet (AFAIK).

>

> No, I meant a new plugin, or a new UI for an existing plugin. What do you think

> it would be nice for, in the context of Ingen? What would it do and how would it

> look like in the canvas?

An obvious example of where you'd want an embeddable UI on the canvas is

an ADSR envelope. Draw your envelope with vectory lines in this module,

apply it to this waveform, play the result when a MIDI event comes in.
This is all totally doable with any toolkit, of course. I can't think of

any really compelling example for GL, it's just another decent choice

for plugin UI implementers. It's not really host related, GL is suitable

for the things GL is suitable for in general... if you want a fancy 3D

waterfall visualization thing, GL is the obvious choice.
You could do some fancy things by using a shared GL drawable for all

modules, but that would mean Ingen would /only/ work with GL plugin UIs.

I can't think of a compelling actual need for this, it seems like the

kind of pointless pretty screenshot crap I deliberately avoid. Every

plugin having its own little UI widget implemented in whatever seems

just fine to me.
-dr
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