On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:35 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > So, if I understand this correctly, there is no API out there that simply > translates common GUI VST calls into any of the libre toolkits which are > also available on Linux, other than the full-fledged Wine implementation? If > so, that *really* sucks. as i have mentioned, VSTGUI does come with a Motif backend but i very very much doubt that it has been kept current as VSTGUI has evolved. > It would be interesting to see just how many different drawing API calls > most of the VSTs utilize for their GUI (since it is predominantly 2D > drawing, my guess is there should not be that many, unless some dev goes all > out and does DirectX eye candy/graphs/envelope > editors/oscilloscopes/whatever). If we could produce a lib that can > translate those API calls into FLTK or some other totally free toolkit, VSTGUI is LGPL'ed and on sourceforge. that is, of course, very very different from "having functional support on a large number of platforms including Linux or X Window" nothing more is needed than programmers with time and motivation. but this is also missing a deeper issue. a lot of plugins do not use VSTGUI, a lot of plugins make calls to win32 function that are not necessarily GUI related. thus, even if you had VSTGUI support for X Window, it wouldn't necessarily be trivial to port a given plugin to linux. --p
