Hallo, Dave Griffiths hat gesagt: // Dave Griffiths wrote: > I've been considering writing a modular gui in tk - PD style (but hopefully a > bit prettier ;P )
Pd will probably not stay with tk, and some of its ugliness is rooted in cross-platform thoughts (like using the Courier font everywhere). > I've come to really like using scripting languages (python) to > create GUIs. The jMax folks have been doing some cool stuff with Python recently in the effort to get rid of the dependency on the proprietary Java. I think this is a really neat approach. Regarding a common modular patch editor: although softsynths are relatives, there are various important differences between them. For example, the Max family is very dependent on character input: You create objects by creating a generic object and then giving it a name. Afterwards the objects stay just that: a word, and it can be treated like that (search/replace for example). This is very much different from traditional modular synths that follow a hardware emulation approach, like AlsaModularSynth or Reaktor. And then there are the modular synth languages, that have a GUI as optional interface, like Csound. Basically they don't need a patch editor besides Vim/Emacs. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
