hey there, I am about to write a remote and preset editor for a synthesizer family. I did one before but for a different type of devices (http://ppcontrol.sf.net). I want to use FLTK for this one as GTK can be *really* slow when you have a window with 127 spinbuttons for example. I am new to FLTK and C++ (I "know" C though). I did the CubeView tutorial that comes with FLUID. So far so good. Now I have to make some software design decisions. Id like to hear some ideas from you about how to do it right. That is, how to get the most out of this fltk and C++ combination for my type of application.
Basically Ill have lots of sliders and spinners, buttons, browsers (for instrument and preset lists). There are almost 2000 parameters that i could control. Every parameter is identified by a number (eg, channel volume is 131, channel pan is 132). Since the values for all those widgets can change dynamically (eg, user switches channel or turns the volume knob on the synthesizer) I need some way to reference to a widget by the parameter number that they control. For example: the user switches the channel. the app will ask for the volume of the current channel. The device responses with something like "130, 50" where 130 is the ID of "channel volume" and "50" is the value. Now i need to set the channel volume slider to the new value. You can probably see that it would be great if i could just do something like set_widget(130, 50); without an explicit mapping of parameter_ID->widget_name Also how to best handle this many widgets? I could continue adding widgets to my window class from the FLUID tutorial. But that would make things kinda confusing/complex. Ideas? Thank you. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
