Mathias Lundgren: > s?n 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. --
