[PD] FreeFrame & pdp_freeframe

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:33 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> Pagano, Patrick wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> thanks to everyone for their help so far with pdvjtools working on  
>> OSX.
>> Currently we have got pdp_colorgrid, pdp_frei0r and pdp_freeframe  
>> to compile
>> But i am at a loss for getting Freeframe to work on OSX with the  
>> plugins.
>> I would like to get them to work with pdp_freeframe, but what about  
>> pix_freeframe?
>> I think the help patch for pdp_freeframe is really elegant where  
>> you can select by number the plugins in the directory numerically.
>
> it actually was a design decision to make pix_freeframe the way it is
> (not being able to change the plugin dynamically; which i personally  
> do
> not find _that_ elegant)
> since [pix_freeframe] has evolved into a loader (that is: you can
> instantiate every ff-plugin as [pix_<pluginname>] (e.g. [pix_waveVFX])
>
>
>> Is it possible to get pix_ & pdp_ freeframe to behave similarly?
>
> since the pix-ff has the above-mentioned loaded functionality, i
> consider making pix_freeframe to be able to load plugins dynamically
> (though probably more on a "load WaveVFX" basis than pre-loading all
> plugins and then selecting them by numbers)
>
> fgm,asdr
> IOhannes
>
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I agree with IOhannes, the loader method with pix_pluginname seems to  
be the most Gem-ish way to do it.  Patrick, it would be great if you  
could put together some kind of package of this freeframe stuff for  
people to try themselves.

.hc


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