On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:49:19 +0100, Sebastien Metrot wrote: > Commercial Software vendor tend to look for pratical solutions for the > problems at hand (even if sometimes it makes them really overlook some > technical and political point). I would be astonished to see Steinberg > Emagic Digidesign Cakewalk and the others agree on a solution that doesn't > solves this issue. Of course the technical problems posed by the way XWindow > handles it event loop could very well get linux lagging behind which is a > pitty IMHO. Is there anybody here that can touch the XWindow/XFree people > and start to look at the problem? I'm surprised the Gimp people haven't > encoutered this problem already.
Well the gimp people all use the Gimp Tool Kit ;) Its not an insurmountable problem, becasue a generic UI library would most likely me somewwhat like libvstgui, which defines an API that pligins use to provide controls (in theory). There is an implemntation of libvstgui for IRIX + X Windows, targeted against Motif. Its 'just' a case of implemting the API in your hosts toolkit and providing that to the plugin. - Steve
