Re: [Sc-devel] Psycollider and cross-platform GUIs

["John Glover" <glover.john@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Thor I'll give that a look. No I would certainly not be
planning on limiting it to Windows, I have a Linux box here too
although windows is my main OS for the moment.


John

On 01/12/2007, thor <th.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi John
>
> > It seems strange to me that we have Psycollider using python/wxpython,
> > while SwingOSC uses Java. I was thinking of doing a bit of a tidy up
> > on Psycollider's front-end, adding the equivalent of the server
> > windows in OSX.
>
> That's a good idea!
> Why not provide wxPython as an alternative to SwingOSC?
> It might even be faster, as it's C wrapped in Python rather than
> having to deal with the Java virtual machine.
>
> But as Sciss will tell you, this is no easy task. SwingOSC is
> quite amazing work and there are lots of hours put into it.
>
> You can have a look at what we've done at ixi with a GUI server
> called Zombi (it's not a SC GUI server like SwingOSC, but could
> be used in SC as it receives OSC to generate the Views):
>
> http://www.ixi-audio.net/backyard  (Click on the Python link)
>
> If you were to do this, I'd not limit this to Psycollider and
> Windows, but
> make a truly cross platform wxPython GUI in the way SwingOSC works.
> (Basically you could translate SwingOSC into wxPython).
>
> If you look at the GUI class of SuperCollider, it is ready to support
> ANY
> GUI servers, so you could easily implement wxPython as an option.
>
> thor
>
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