[Clam-devel] Re: faust status

[Pau Arumí Albó]

El dc 09 de 07 de 2008 a les 15:46 -0300, en/na Natanael Olaiz va
escriure:
> El 07/09/2008 10:14 AM, David García Garzón escribió: 
> > Wow. Dump such many screenshots to the Development screenshots wiki.
> >   
> 
> Added some, except the warning messages (maybe an animated gif could
> be better for that). BTW, if we use just one script to compile the
> faust files we could use QProcess.startDetached
> (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qprocess.html#startDetached) instead
> QProcess.start (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qprocess.html#start) and
> manage it as background process, so the NE will not be 'frozen' when
> compiling.


Just checked that on-the-fly faust coding is working. Awesome!!

Yes, a detached process will be nice. And yes, a make or scons script
will be useful to avoid unneeded recompilations. 

If I understand correctly we are not using the faust provided make to
generate ladspas (.so) and diagrams (.svg) because it needs the faust
binary in the PATH.
Well, I think that requiring faust to be installed would be ok.
Instructing a user to download faust or download and install faust
doesn't make a big difference. Plus, we want to support the use case of
faust installed from a package and user's .dsp in a local dir (in
FAUST_PATH or FAUST_PATH/examples/).

What do you think?

Some small issues:

- Dropped-to-canvas faust processings have tiny diagrams here. Would be
feasible to scale them up?

- When clicking "Reload Faust modules" the warning window states "More
related features like svg embedding, bla bla will come soon.". This is
fortunately outdated. 

- Proposed feature: when clicking this action, checks if the faust
binary is available, if not a window promopts to install the tarball,
with the url (not sure about instructing to install a package, because
of the writable .dsp examples issue)

- Hey, your screenshots have Sinks and Sources with svg diagrams. But
mines no. I want them! :-)

P



> 
> And thanks for improving the ugly format of the article and
> screenshots!
> 
> > On Dimecres 09 Juliol 2008, Natanael Olaiz wrote:
> >   
> > > A simple overview of the actual Faust support:
> > > http://iua-share.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Devel/Faust_support
> > > 
> > > I think so many of those how-to steps could be managed by a faust
> > > install/configuration script. What do you think?
> > > 
> > > El 07/08/2008 09:50 PM, Natanael Olaiz escribió:
> > >     
> > > > Commited in two steps, and changed some names on MainWindow and
> > > > NetworkCanvas. Now those names are a little bit large, but I think now
> > > > them refers better to its uses.
> > > > 
> > > > Commit 11582:
> > > > * RunTimeLibraryLoader: Load() changed to virtual, added some
> > > > commented debug messages, and minor changes on CompletePathFor()
> > > > * RunTimeFaustLibraryLoader:
> > > >    - implemented virtual Load() to search first for the examples faust
> > > > dir
> > > >    - added std::map GetCompilePluginCommands(std::string
> > > > pluginSourceFullName) to get required faust compilation commands with
> > > > the propers paths
> > > >    - if plugin exists in factory, use ReplaceCreator instead
> > > > AddCreatorWarningRepetitions
> > > >    - added helpers: faustBinCommand() and faustLibIncludeFile()
> > > > 
> > > > Commit 11583:
> > > > 
> > > > * ClamNetworkCanvas:
> > > >    - added signal: openFileWithExternalApplicationRequest
> > > >    - added QString _fileNameToOpen (used when catching the previous
> > > > signal on MainWindow), onOpenFileWithExternalApplication to set it and
> > > > getFileNameToOpenWithExternalApplication() to get it
> > > >    - added slot onOpenFileWithExternalApplication
> > > >    - added "Open diagram with browser" item on processings context
> > > > menu which have svg_diagram attribute
> > > >    - added "Open source with editor" item on processings context menu
> > > > which have dsp_source attribute
> > > > * NewtorkEditor MainWindow:
> > > >    - added slot on_action_Launch_Browser_triggered
> > > >    - on_action_Online_tutorial_triggered() calls
> > > > on_action_Launch_Browser_triggered
> > > >    - added slot
> > > > on_action_Processing_Open_File_With_External_Application_triggered,
> > > > connected to ClamNetworkCanvas::openFileWithExternalApplicationRequest
> > > > signal
> > > >    - added messages on slot on_action_Compile_Faust_triggered, and
> > > > changed to search the .dsp files on faust examples directory and
> > > > compile them one by one directly (doesn't need to have Faust installed
> > > > or makefiles)
> > > >       
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Clam-devel mailing list
> > > Clam-devel at llistes.projectes.lafarga.org
> > > https://llistes.projectes.lafarga.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clam-devel
> > >     
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   
>