On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:01 +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: > The "renders panels from stylesheets" is what I am referring to. Phat > is > has very nice widgets, but AFAIK it stops before the container > level. > That's where the widget 'system' comes in: a system that manages > widgets > such that you don't have to care about that. Just write a UI > description > and have the system generate the UI for you (at run time).
right. you could argue that LV2 might offer enough metadata to help a host build a good UI, but my approach is meant to give plugin coders more control. i know from my experience with plugin developers that they like to set apart their works "from the competition", and spend a great deal on presentation. providing them with a set of highly customizable (hardware-like) widgets + a document-like format to describe a panel is the goal here. yes, it's nothing big. it's just about making this special field more accessible. the result will be screenshots showing off a lot of beautiful panels that people are used to from commercial applications. the effect will be "i want this, it looks good. i want to play with it." of course there is nothing wrong with a beauty of logic beneath the surface that waits to be discovered by the attentive and insistent. however, inside of everyone, there is a little child easily amazed by beauty, with a longing to possess, touch, move and play with the things it adores. and, in my opinion, playing around is something very important in music. -- Leonard Ritter -- Freelance Art & Logic -- http://www.leonard-ritter.com
