On 9/8/20 6:23 AM, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
I would not recommend Qt at least. It's got lots of strange bugs and
peculiar behaviors. SND is so big, that I would actually recommend
creating your own widget set, built upon SDL for instance. It will
probably save a lot of time if you spend a lot of time fighting
against the GUI.
I believe that is probably what Fons (Adriaensen) did for his software,
he wrote is own widget set layered directly on top of X (in C++) - I
don't know why he did that, but it may be the same reason. It is
available as a library here:
https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/clxclient-3.9.2.tar.bz2
-- Fernando
You would also save a lot of time if you write the
custom widget set in Scheme and not in C. At least this is my
experience in Radium, where half of the GUI is written in a custom
widget set, and the other half in Qt. Hopefully I will get rid of Qt
at some point, at least for GUI and graphics. Writing the code to draw
a button doesn't take much time for instance, it's not much more work
than a call to paintRoundedRectangle and a call to paintText().
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, Snd's gtk GUI was falling apart in gtk3 -- I stopped
using it altogether. Since gtk4 is a new beast, I've
managed to rationalize this change: I have to start over,
and the current code is not working, so let's get on with it.
I'll look at other toolkits first, Juce and Qt in particular.
If I may be allowed a digression (us old guys tend to talk
too much); in gtk1 and gtk2 the interface was very close
to the Motif version, leaving aside the access to openGL
in Motif (which I greatly valued for spectrograms etc).
In gtk3, (or thereabouts -- my memory is hazy), they
decided to go with Cairo instead of openGL, which meant
the "G" in "GUI" was at a dead-end. Then smart phones
and Wayland came along, and Gnome took over with its
notion of a "brand" -- everything must look and act the
same. But Snd was aimed at the study of sounds in the
context of music composition -- can you imagine a smaller
niche?
...
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