There's an old method to create a remote GUI for PD, that uses wxWindows and communicate through sockets. It's not a replacement GUI, but it helps to create front-ends: http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/gripd/ -- Marc Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:14:35 +0800, Simon Wise <simonzwise@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > On 01/09/13 03:26, Heikki Ketoharju wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I don't know if this should be asked in LAD, but I'm fed up with > > Pure Data's own gui components, and would like to develop my own > > gui with something else (GTK? QT?). I don't have earlier experience > > with any UI toolkit, so I don't have any favourites. What is > > easiest approach to custom gui development with PD? > > > > I need something like list boxes and buttons with custom text. > > Nothing too special. > > You have some choices: > > 1/ use whatever toolkit you prefer to build your GUI app, and send > messages to PD over a socket. Pd is a language, you don't need to use > the GUI parts of it at all ... it has very mature ways of listening > to input of all sorts. > > 2/ ditto, but send osc or midi instead of native pd messages > > 3/ ditto, but use real hardware interfaces rather than the somewhat > limited ascii - mouse - screen interface of most toolkits. > > 4/ use libpd to give access to lots of PD from within the GUI > application you are building > > 5/ look at droid party for a project that provides another GUI > method, using libpd internally, for making interfaces on Android (and > iOS) devices. > > http://droidparty.net/ > > > All these have advantages, but of course they all involve more work > than just using the GUI elements built into the language. > > Simon _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
