[Clam-devel] Re: [pksampler-devel] CLAM and PK widgets

[David García Garzón]

Any enhancement would be really very wellcome, Patrick.

I am starting to adapt also widgets from Rui Nuno Capella and Pedro Lopez 
Cabanillas (QSynth/Qtractor/QJackCtl...), and Chris Cannam 
(SonicVisualizer,Rosegarden...). Let's make Linux interfaces cool ;-)

David.


On Dimecres 18 Abril 2007, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> I just had a look at some of the screenshots. Good greif! I thouht I
> recognized those widgets...I wish I had some time to play with it and
> make it better...
>
> On 4/12/07, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/12/07, David García Garzón <dgarcia at iua.upf.edu> wrote:
> > > On Dijous 12 Abril 2007, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> > > > > I did some experiments by changing parameters such as colors and
> > > > > size of buttons, and works pretty well. :-) I need to know how to
> > > > > crop them but i am on the track.
> > > >
> > > > Right. I wrote a tool to do that a while ago, but it isn't in my
> > > > repository anymore because I took a different direction with the
> > > > widgets I have now. I could write it again in a day or less if I
> > > > wasn't so busy... We release early june (hopefully) and this stuff
> > > > would be fun to get back into then (no promises!)
> > >
> > > Nice to know. If i need it before i think i could do it myself.
> > >
> > > > > What i miss is some way of making the background transparent.
> > > > > Adding pkwidgets to an interface forces you to use the widget
> > > > > background for all the interface to avoid awkward aspect. By having
> > > > > an alpha background we could remove this limitation. I spotted
> > > > > several interesting links: http://www.imagico.de/pov/icons.html
> > > > > http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/shadowtut/index.htm
> > > >
> > > > This was one of two major problems I never tackled.. I thought about
> > > > using some sort of mask, but I'm not sure. The purest way would be to
> > > > get povray to do it, but I haven't looked into it. If it isn't
> > > > immediately possible using the povray docs, then a post to the povray
> > > > mailing list and/or community forums would probably be worth it. If
> > > > not, creating some sort of mask might be the way to go, but that
> > > > would be difficult with the shadow.
> > >
> > > Have you checked the links? Ok, you are in release ;-) i can just
> > > describe them, they explain how to do icons with alpha by doing 2 or 3
> > > povray runs with different parameters. By doing that we could get some
> > > alpha shadowed backgrounds. I promise to get on that, well, if you
> > > don't before ;-)
> >
> > you probably will before me
> >
> > > > > > Keep me informed how your work goes. I'm glad to hear my code
> > > > > > helped.
> > > > >
> > > > > At the moment i'll use the existing widgets and pixmaps and i'll
> > > > > extend both as i need more. Our packaging must not to be changed
> > > > > for that. Eventually i would like to integrate things further and
> > > > > porting other widgets. So let's talk then. I'll keep you informed.
> > > > > Warn me also when your release is over and lets chat a little.
> > > >
> > > > I may not remember (we are REALLY busy), so drop me another line if I
> > > > don't get back to you. This is what we are working on:
> > > > www.soundsonline.com.
> > > >
> > > > Are you doing anything commercially?
> > >
> > > Not so, but we are currently seeking commercial projects involving
> > > CLAM. Here comercial does not mean non-free but we also are able to
> > > drop non relicenceable dependencies if non-free is a requirement.
> > >
> > > Good luck with the release.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David García Garzón
> > > (Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es
> > > (Home) vokimon at telefonica adot net
> > > http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Kidd Stinson
> > http://www.patrickkidd.com/
> > http://pkaudio.sourceforge.net/
> > http://pksampler.sourceforge.net/



-- 
David García Garzón
(Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es
(Home) vokimon at telefonica adot net
http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia
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