Re: AudioUnits and Cocoa UI
Re: AudioUnits and Cocoa UI
- Subject: Re: AudioUnits and Cocoa UI
- From: Andy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:41:46 +0000
On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 17:03 Europe/London, Bill Stewart wrote:
I should also make it clear that the most easily and broadly supported
UI is still Carbon, so if any AU developer is concerned at this point
about broad usability, a Carbon View is certainly more broadly
supported. However, we also understand the attractiveness of Cocoa for
UI development and see a great potential for the sharing of UI objects
and widgets that can make this both an interesting and worthwhile
endeavour
...
This is good news indeed :) But can we be assured that at least the
Apple owned Logic will support this feature ?
Not much point in supporting it if Logic is not a capable host.
Although some of us are indeed writing host apps with cocoa based
front ends, Logic is likely to be the most important factor in terms of
market for individual AUs. I am very pleased that at last some serious
discussion about cocoa views can happen.
...
Comments are welcome.
Whilst we will eventually publish this protocol and propertyID in our
headers, this does not need any specific support from us, so if there
is a general agreement we can go ahead with this. At that time, I'll
give out the property ID number and away we go...
As is known by some, I have already proved that this method can and
does work for AUs. In fact the method I implemented is almost exactly
as you describe, (apart from your forthcoming protocol of course) and
so I am confident your proposal will work OK.
But I am concerned that some complex AUs will need more than one
window/view. We only need to look at some of the samplers that are
appearing in the VSTi domain to see that a single view really is not
enough. Perhaps before steaming ahead with the cocoa protocol we should
at least discuss this feature. Cocoa is an ideal API for a multiple
view AU. I know we need to be careful here as it could easily get out
of hand so perhaps time for discussion about some rules for multi view
AUs ??
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