djowel64

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by djowel64 7y ago
I now changed the name to Elemental C++ GUI library. Again, sorry for the stupid mistake and the confusion it caused.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Not a bad idea, actually.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Yes, Photon does that with all continuous UI elements.
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by djowel64 7y ago
I'll do that in a follow up post. To be honest, I wasn’t ready to release this yet, not in this form, so the info is very preliminary, as noted in the introduction: "Let me tell you a bit about Photon… From my previous post about
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by djowel64 7y ago
At least VST allows you to switch to and from using basic controls and the full plugin UI. Actually, if your plugin does not provide a UI, the DAW host will provide a generic one for you, with basic controls like sliders, drop-down menus, e
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by djowel64 7y ago
You spend a minuscule amount of time with Dialogs. You spend Most of the time in the project window itself, the mixer, transport, and all the plugins. None of those use standard controls. If they did, they would've pleased all blind us
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by djowel64 7y ago
Just a stupid mistake, really. I know QNX, but I haven't used it and I didn't know the QNX Photon name. You guys are right. I should've done a 3 minute Google. My bad.
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by djowel64 7y ago
FWIW, Photon scales well. One issue is that DAWs may or may not allow scalable UIs. VST2 for example, is not designed to be scalable, but VST3 is. I'm very open to addressing accessibility if anyone wants to do some work on it.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Same here. And for that matter, all DAWs I know also do not use standard platform widgets. Logic Pro, Reaper, Ableton, Pro Tools, Cubase etc. all use their own custom UI elements.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. Thanks for noting. I honestly did not know. Oh well... It seems I have to change the name.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. Yes, I know NanoGUI. I actually started with NanoVG. I had problems embedding in a plugin, IIRC. GLFW is not embeddable, IIRC.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. The "canvas" part is encapsulated and can re-target another vector engine. I'm considering Skia, but it was too unstable when I first tried. Maybe I'll try again.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. It seems I have to change the name. Bummer :-) Anyway, I didn't know. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by djowel64 7y ago
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. Just wondering, do you know any significant (or perhaps even insignificant) VST or AU plugin that uses standard platform widgets? I wonder how that would look like.