[music-dsp] Reasonable requirements for plugin developers?

Andrew Greenwood lists at silverblade.co.uk
Wed Jul 14 19:25:09 EDT 2004


> speaking about gui libs in general: personally i would hate
> a whole audio app based on a tk that does not try to use as
> much of the standard widgets of the target system as
> possible, customized guis may work for something like a
> simple vst surface, but custom gui for anything involving
> file handling, menus or just the most basic input boxes is
> just pain. the maker of the custom widgets/controls _never_
> thinks of all the ways a user might be used to interact with,
> say, a combo box, from those usually very complete (even
> basic accessibility features might be included!) and
> standardized desktop system native widgets.

Yeah that's what I'm trying to avoid. I want the virtual devices to use
custom controls (while attempting to standardize them by making knobs act
the same way, etc.) but still use the platform's dialogs etc.




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