On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 06:42 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > I can say that the QT package is much easier to use and has > better documentation and support. Not that GTK is terrible, it's just > not as polished or professional. the enemy of the good is the better. i, for one, used the past 3 days to write a python module named "audiogui", which provides widgets to mimick the look and feel of traditional audio hardware panels (i dare you to start an audio ui design war with me). it will be the base for providing an engine which renders panels from stylesheets, to be used with plugins of aldrin - but of course that whole thing could be connected to an OSC library and control any DSSI host. the basic idea was to imitate the design seen from native instruments plugins and propellerheads reason. of course i'm damn proud that the results look so well ;) here is a demo showing the three widgets DecoBox, Knob and LCD, with different settings applied. http://www.paniq.org/images/audiogui5.png in case you want to play with it, the module is based on PyGTK+ and Cairo, and can be checked out from the aldrin svn. http://svn.zeitherrschaft.org/aldrin/trunk you find the scripts in share/aldrin, they are named audiogui.py and lcdfont.py. run audiogui.py for above demonstration. -- Leonard Ritter -- Freelance Art & Logic -- http://www.leonard-ritter.com
