On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:58:49AM +0100, jorgen wrote: > Hi, Im coding a VST host for windows and linux. The linux version will > support VSTs compiled on linux and not using wine or aything. Of course, > there is not alot of native linux VST plugins around but that will > change (I already made one :P )
:) cool welcome abord. so you ported vstGUI ? how will that work ? does a vst plugin coder only recompile his plug then ? > > There is one challange though, event dispatching in X11. Unlike windows, > X11 windows doesnt have an assotiated window proc for dispatching > events. I can overcome this in my own gui toolkit by passing a Display* > pointer to the plugin etc, but it wouldnt work with other gui toolkits. > > So how do I make a soution that work with any toolkits on linux? we are still searching for a solution with a window generated in the same process. with different toolkits etc. to my knowledge this has not really been solved. believe me, there would be a much nicer standard than dssi already. > 1) the plugin calls its own event loop in effEditIdle > 2) make a new atom "wndproc" for storing wndproc function per window, > the host will send XEvents to the wndproc if found. > > I prefer 1) but I dont know if toolkits supports manually calling the > event loop? i am not sure i understand what you want to do but..... for gtk see: http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-main-iteration-do for qt start along here: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/qeventloop.html#processEvents > > cheers > jorgen > > -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
