[PD] GUI toolkits and custom GUIs WAS: Integra Live 1.5 released

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Jan 21 17:02:52 CET 2013


On 01/21/2013 12:54 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: Billy Stiltner <billy.stiltner at gmail.com>
>> To: IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] GUI toolkits and custom GUIs WAS: Integra Live 1.5 released
>>
>> haha , last month i tried to install juce to see about making an
>> alternate graphics front end to my patches. there  was some weirdness
>> in the way you compile it then run the introjucer or somethin to
>> update it then after the update something didn't quite work right.
>> then there are all the old projects that use the old steinberg vst sdk
>> which you cant get from steinberg anymore so all that is just awful. i
>> think that there should be a really nice updated version of juce
>> either available now or in the near future.  its a tossup between
>> fltk, qt , opengl ,juce, and processing.  i just want to be able to
>> add my waveform data filenames to the presets with a fileopen dialog
>> without using an external, string parsing like .scl files that have
>> 100.00 or 3/2, and polyphonic patchcords would be nice.
> 
> What about the -guicmd "cmd..." flag?  Could one write a pd-gui.html
> that lives at localhost:1234, and have it talk to pd at its port on localhost?
> 
> Then you could just write the interface with html5 canvas, svg,
> javascript, or whatever.
> 
> -Jonathan


That sounds feasible to me.

.hc



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