On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Brendan Jones wrote:
On 04/11/2012 08:27 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:45:15PM +0200, Brendan Jones wrote:
>>On 04/11/2012 06:00 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>>
>>>There is a library named suil whose purpose is to allow an application to
>>>require one UI toolkit and that application's plugins to require a
different
>>>UI toolkit.
>>>
>>>The suil library itself has compiled plugins that enable different types of
>>>embedding (qt4 in gtk2 and gtk2 in qt4 at the moment). These suil plugins
>>>need to require two toolkits apiece: the toolkit that is being embedded and
>>>the toolkit that is being embedded into.
>>
>>suil is somewhat parallel to the spec - the host could instantiate
>>the plugin on its own (using lv2core) if it wanted to. I guess the
>>best way is to consider suil a helper library using lv2core which
>>saves the host from doing the heavy lifting.
>>
>So.. what is a host and what is lv2core?
>
A host is any application that instantiates an LV2 plugin - e.g. best
known examples are apps like qtractor or ardour. Although there are
others like lv2rack (which doesn't use suil). Eventually I think LV2
will be a drop in replacement for LADSPA plugins, but its not quite
there yet.
So -- I write a plugin and it can be hosted by any number of applications?
-Toshio