[CM] gtk in snd?

Kjetil Matheussen k.s.matheussen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 08:25:58 PDT 2020


On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:05 PM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> That is interesting -- thanks for the pointer!  I wonder
> if writing raw X code is a good idea -- people say Wayland
> is the future (but they've been saying that for a decade).
> I don't know how toolkits like gtk work with it -- that
> was one reason to stick with gtk for so long.

I would say raw X (or Wayland) is a bad idea since it would mostly
limit Snd to run on Linux only. If you want to make your own widgets,
and only need a canvas to draw on, gdk, SDL, or JUCE might be good
alternatives (haven't tried SDL though). Or cairo?


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