Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
snip: . . . and now include a example file-browser which demonstrate how to create a file picker with Xputty to be used in a LV2 UI. also demoing the dynamic create/destroy of X11 Window's with the help of the underling Xputty structure. https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty Beside, comments are welcome. regards hermann ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
Am 28.07.19 um 21:22 schrieb Hermann Meyer: Am 21.07.19 um 16:25 schrieb Hermann Meyer: Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey: On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200 Hermann Meyer wrote: However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here: https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html regards hermann And *that* is the best news of the lot! So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way into development. Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation "afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about. However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be tricky. Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer. This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be resized/destroyed and new created. Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts to stutter. . . . and now the first widgets been implemented, like buttons, sliders, and a knob. Also a theming engine is in place. A example for how to use it is in the examples folder. In the mean time I've done some more work on this, and added some more widgets. menus, combo-box, tooltip, label and meter widgets been in place now. Also I've added a LV2 plugin example which show how easy and lightweight the creation of a LV2 UI could be. Yea, and all is documented in the Docs. https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty regards hermann ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
Am 21.07.19 um 16:25 schrieb Hermann Meyer: Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey: On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200 Hermann Meyer wrote: However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here: https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html regards hermann And *that* is the best news of the lot! So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way into development. Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation "afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about. However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be tricky. Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer. This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be resized/destroyed and new created. Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts to stutter. . . . and now the first widgets been implemented, like buttons, sliders, and a knob. Also a theming engine is in place. A example for how to use it is in the examples folder. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
Am 20.07.19 um 21:35 schrieb Will J Godfrey: On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200 Hermann Meyer wrote: However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here: https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html regards hermann And *that* is the best news of the lot! So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way into development. Yea, I've made the experience that I never ever do any documentation "afterwards". So this time I would do it from the beginning on. At least it helps as well myself, to not forgot what it is about. However, today I make a big step regarding transparent widgets. Those who've done any development with X11 and cairo knows that it could be tricky. Today I find out that the big difference is to NOT USE cairo_image_surface_create. Avoid it. When working in a X11 context, the way to go is cairo_surface_create_similar on the xlib surface as buffer. This avoid unnecessary coping the image data from the graphic server to CPU and back. The CPU footprint boils down to below 2% on full screen action here. Even on resize action, when the surfaces needs to be resized/destroyed and new created. Before this change CPU could reach 80% and more and the desktop starts to stutter. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:24:47 +0200 Hermann Meyer wrote: >However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here: > >https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html > >regards > >hermann And *that* is the best news of the lot! So many projects have little or no documentation until they are a very long way into development. -- It wasn't me! (Well actually, it probably was) ... the hard part is not dodging what life throws at you, but trying to catch the good bits. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
Hi Cédric Well, I must admit that it is grown already a bit, and still is work in progress. Things have changed and it is no longer a single header. I've implemented widgets to be transparent, usage of adjustments and currently working on proper scaling support modes. My goal is to implement it as simple as possible, so, that just a setting is required to decide how a widget is presented on screen, but allow as well to fine tune anything more deep. However, I've setup a online Documentation for libxputty here: https://brummer10.github.io/Xputty/html/xputty_8h.html regards hermann Am 20.07.19 um 13:03 schrieb Cedric Roux: Dear Hermann, let me use your announcement to try sending an email to the LAD list. Seems like free.fr is now "whitelisted" for LAD, which allows me to salute your work! Let's make writing basic and simple software great again! :) Regards, Cédric. On 7/16/19 1:48 PM, Hermann Meyer wrote: For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more writing the same code, so I decided to wrote a Layer for it. It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a cairo surface to draw. Additional to subscribe to and handle events. I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever he /she want's with it. The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features supported by the layer. It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier the process to create nice GUI's. Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a single c file. All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation. So, here you go: https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Re: [LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
Dear Hermann, let me use your announcement to try sending an email to the LAD list. Seems like free.fr is now "whitelisted" for LAD, which allows me to salute your work! Let's make writing basic and simple software great again! :) Regards, Cédric. On 7/16/19 1:48 PM, Hermann Meyer wrote: > For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more writing the same code, so I > decided to wrote a Layer for it. > It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a cairo > surface to draw. > Additional to subscribe to and handle events. > > I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever he > /she want's with it. > > The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features > supported by the layer. > It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier the > process to create nice GUI's. > Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a > single c file. > All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation. > > So, here you go: > https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty > > > ___ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
[LAD] Xputty - damn tiny abstraction Layer to create X11 window/widgets with cairo surfaces
For creating LV2 UI's I end up more and more writing the same code, so I decided to wrote a Layer for it. It's supposed to create, manage, draw, and destroy X11 widgets with a cairo surface to draw. Additional to subscribe to and handle events. I decided to put it in the Public Domain, so everyone could do what ever he /she want's with it. The repository contain a example folder showing some of the features supported by the layer. It's a tiny, but powerful abstraction of the X11 low level API to easier the process to create nice GUI's. Documentation is included in the source code, it's a single header and a single c file. All together just 654 lines, were most lines taken by documentation. So, here you go: https://github.com/brummer10/Xputty ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
