mån 2004-11-15 klockan 14.56 skrev Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen: > Mathias Lundgren: > > sön 2004-11-14 klockan 02.21 skrev Ivica Ico Bukvic: > > > > According to the website, LADSPA will not be supported because of UI > > > > issues. > > > > > > While we're talking about LADSPA UI stuff, has there been any progress on > > > this matter? News like this one obviously point to the LADSPA's currently > > > greatest weakness of not endorsing any of the UI's and/or not having a > > > standard one to go by. At this point perhaps I should make a quote from > > > the > > > Half-Life game, "it's time to choose Mr. Freeman..." :-). > > > > > > > MusE also has a framework for creating custom Qt UI:s for LADSPA > > plugins. This means you can create a gui in Qt-designer, f.ex. name it > > 1050.ui (1050 == Freeverb), and put it in MusE's shared plugin > > directory, which is checked on startup. If there's no 1050.ui-file there > > when you launch the Freeverb plugin, it goes for a standard gui, > > otherwise the custom one is initialized. > > > > You simply give all input widgets in the gui, that manipulate a LADSPA > > parameter, a name starting with "P", and set the id-property of the > > widget to the parameter index of the plugin. The connection is done > > automagically and there's no need to recompile the app. In fact, you > > don't even need to write any code yourself to create a custom LADSPA > > gui. > > > > This is a great idea, where it should be easy to make a general > library for other hosts (not necesarrily running Qt) making use > of those UI's with the help of some ipc-tricks. > > The great question is: Does there exist many ladspa-ui files? > In case there are, the motivation to make such a library is quite high. > > Mathias, I have CC this to the dev-list. If you answer, please > only use the dev-list. >
As of today there are only 2 ui-files that I'm aware of. They're included with the MusE package, and I think they're mainly to be seen as a proof of concept. There's been some talking about doing some more serious attempts though. /Mathias