Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Anything going on?

[Josh G. <jg...@us...>]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 03:21, Antti Boman wrote:
> Josh Green wrote:
> > Well, I'm still ploding along on Swami development. New devel branch
> > is.. well developing :) libInstPatch has some more testing under its
> > belt and a Python interface is beginning to form. I'm starting to
> > re-work the GUI side of things to make it more pluggable in anticipation
> > of new formats being added to libInstPatch (DLS2, Akai, GUS and perhaps
> > SF1). Much of this has still not been committed to CVS, although I would
> > be quick to commit it if I knew someone was interested (hint hint).
> 
> No-one is. No, seriously, I'm interested :) And ready to test and help.
> 
> -a

Cool :) There is quite a lot of things to do with Swami, so if you
really are interested, join the swami-devel mailing list (nothing
happening there at the moment, except for my status reports from time to
time). The development branch of Swami/libInstPatch has not quite
reached the stage where testing is really useful (still some things to
implement). If you are good with GUIs, I could use some ideas and brain
storming of how the user interface could be re-designed. The underlying
architecture is very object oriented (in a good way) but the GUI still
looks like the old Smurf SoundFont Editor (which is a mock up of a
screen shot I had of Vienna).

I want the new GUI to have a flexible layout (using the Gtk(H/V)Paned
widgets for now until a more flexible one is written) where the type of
UI element can be set (patch tree, patch properties, effect controls,
sample waveform loop control, GUI envelopes, etc) and these elements can
be docked or undocked from different windows. There could then be layout
presets (such as a "Classic" one that would resemble the current
interface). I'm just now re-writing the object state save/restore system
which is going to be XML based using libxml2 which will help a lot with
making the user interface more object oriented (and being able to
actually store this for later use).

Also much needs to be done in the area of adding API to the different UI
objects that plugins can take advantage of. A plugin may for instance
want to add its own operations to the right-click menu on the patch tree
object, add its own configuration UI to the preferences dialog, etc.

Anyways, additional discussion should probably occur on the swami-devel
list. One need not be an expert to help out and there is a lot of other
things besides GUI work that could use some help :) Cheers.
	Josh Green

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