On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:59:26 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > the main area of potential evolution right now concerns the right form > > for the argument to lcp_open(). if the GUI's are always on the same > > system, which they would be if fork/execed by the host, `pid' makes > > sense. but for more generality, GUI's could be started on other > > systems (PDA's anyone?) and then sockaddr_in or something similar > > would be appropriate. > > How about adopting the same approach X uses. unix domain sockets on local > machines and tcpip on remote ones, I believe.
Note that we are not speaking of a timing critical part, so always using tcpip will simplify implementation. Also we could make use of existing technology and simply present a http server to the GUI (which in turn can be any browser) either from the LADSPA host or directly from each plugin. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/ The GLAME Project: http://www.glame.de/
