On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 06:16, Rob Taylor wrote: > > >4-Interface abstraction for plugins.: We all know how our lovely X11.. > > >Steve Harris proposed the use of (rdf was it?), > > Steve Harris' lib-rdf is available: > > http://plugin.org.uk//lrdf/ > > but i have not used it and can not say anything useful about it. It is > > used by ardour though. > > has there been any discussion on using XUL? (http://www.xulplanet.com/), I > don't know that much about it, but if theres a good clean (playform > independant) way to embed SVG or OpenGL, it seems to me like it would be the > perfect way to specify interfaces for plugins, allawing you to do all sorts > of funky things (and of course, you can always use a rdf datasource if > you're just doing a simple plugin and want to leave layout, etc to the > parent app). Also note that with the XUL engine in firebird, its now pretty > damm speedy.
As far as I know, the only XUL implementation is inside Mozilla. Besides that though, I don't think it has the specialized widgets that audio applications need. Taybin
