[PlanetCCRMA] supercollider GUI

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 14:06 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> Thanks Fernando,
> 
> I seem to have everything already installed Supercollider related from
> CCRMA. I also found that SCUM is for GUI programing, which one would
> you recomend? SCUM or SwingOSC?

AFAIK SwingOSC. That one is (almost?) completely integrated into the GUI
class, so you can select to use either Cocoa on an OSX machine or
SwingOSC on a Linux machine and supposedly everything works :-)

-- Fernando


> On 10/18/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 23:12 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been exploring Supercollider lately and I was wondering if the
> > > GUI aspect is working on Linux. I read here
> > > http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/591 that it is not
> > > implemented yet but I don't know if this is outdated information.  I
> > > tried some of the examples inside /usr/share/SuperCollider/Help/GUI
> > > but I just got errors... I'm quite new to it so I'm not sure if I'm
> > > doing the right thing (I was just cutting and pasting code and trying
> > > to run it). I've tried other code non-GUI related and SC seems to work
> > > fine. Basically I'm interested in the possibility of using SC with a
> > > GUI to display controllers (sliders, knobs, XY, etc).
> >
> > Yes, it is implemented. Look at SwingOSC as the solution, it is a java
> > based server that takes care of doing gui things for you and the latest
> > versions of SC have a much better integration than older ones. You need
> > to install Java - the Sun version, I think - for it to work, I can't add
> > that to Planet CCRMA because the license does not allow me to
> > redistribute it. The Planet CCRMA package is supercollider-swingosc, I
> > think (you get everything I have if you install supercollider-world).