On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:57:35 +0100, Dr. Matthias Nagorni wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Steve Harris wrote: > > > etc.) and it doesn;t solve the immediate problem of UIs that cannot be > > succesfully represented in XML, eg. (my favourite exmaple) a lowpass > > filter plugin, which should render the freq. response of the filter. > > Yes, I'm aware of the problem. Look e.g. at the envelope modules of ams, > the scope and spectrum viewer and the dynamic waves module. They all have > canvas where some more or less complicated graphics is drawn. But wouldn't > it be posssible to express these things with XML as well ? Hope I soon > find the time to work out some sample code...
Well, the curve would depend on the character of the filter / compressor / whatever. I guess you could embedd an expression representing the shape, but that just seems like hard work. A more general and untilmatly simpler solution is to allow people to write code for the UI. - Steve
