Re: CVS commit : 0.98.3

On 02/09/2013 08:38 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Sun, February 10, 2013 6:00 am, Michiel Broek wrote:
>> On 02/09/2013 04:55 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just added a new window stub for the "multiout" interface and a couple
>>> of fixes to the presets window.
>>>
>>> If someone wants to check to make sure everything still compiles that
>>> would be helpful.
>> It does, a few more warnings during compile but that seems to come from
>> the new window.
>>
>> Thinking of that, until this week I didn't know that this presets window
>> existed. Most users (like me) start Jamin from the window manager menu,
>> and obviously that starts just Jamin. Can that window made accessible
>> from the toolbar?
>>
> I'll add that.
Thanks.


>
>
>>> Also, unfortunately the version of glade I have here with Debian
>>> Experimental now longer loads the ui template file. So I have had to
>>> edit
>>> the interface.c/h files manually which means that any updates done with
>>> glade will overwrite the changes.
>>>
>>> It's a bit of a pain if you are not comfortable hand coding gtk but not
>>> a
>>> big deal if you use the existing code as a reference.
>>>
>>> I'm also looking into the effort that upgrading to gtk3 will require.
>>> There are some converter scripts but I'm not sure how well they will
>>> work
>>> on this project. It might be necessary to rebuild for gtk3 support.
>>> Maybe
>>> there is a way to run both gtk2 and 3 from the same codebase. At the
>>> same
>>> time would be even cooler because then we could just tansition  to gtk3
>>> and clutter without having to migrate existing code.
>>>
>>> I'll see if I can get gtk3 working with the new multiout window.
>>>
>> Have you read this:
>> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.5/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html
>>
> The problem with a complete migration is that drawable is not supported in
> gtk3 which means we have to basically reimplement the custom widgets like
> the parametric eq, compressor graphs and meters. So it is not a small task
> to migrate this app.
>
> I'm looking at embedding a clutter stage into the new window now. It might
> be the way to get a more advanced UI without having to completely rebuild
> the existing interface.
>
>

I didn't spell it out exactly, but it looks like these things must be 
done in cairo. It doesn't look like an hour work to do and no scripts.

gtx, Michiel.




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