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@bacardi55 likely to be killed again next year, beginning the cycle all over again!

cmake support in DPF is in!
https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF/pull/269

Thanks to work by Jean Pierre Cimalando

More great stuff coming soon 🚀 🚀

Slowly getting DPF Cairo backend up to speed.
Same codebase, totally different targets, same behaviour.
Screenshot shows the Demo/test tool to render a few things, including subwidgets.
(opengl has the nanovg test, which is not possible on cairo for obvious reasons)

Only 2 things left for Cairo backend:
1. load png images from memory (instead of large raw data like opengl side does)
2. get the built-in DPF image widgets compatible with cairo.

Those 2 already done in a PR, but need adjustment

@rghvdberg@sonomu.club this is outrageous, some places forbidding UwU 😢

One of the perks of modular open-source design.
We can just take stuff other people did, that is also open-source, and put it together with ours.
Jean Pierre Cimalando was doing some tests and we got DPF rendering "Dear ImGui" [1] stuff for audio plugin usage.
It does really work! Of course with some caveats, but looks quite promising.

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

Most are not following along, but progress on update DPF to use latest upstream pugl is going very well.
Can already build all the example plugins, tested with https://github.com/DISTRHO/glBars and it runs with 0 changes required in the code.
Keyboard input and a few other minor things not handled yet, but it is just a matter of hooking up the events now.

@openmastering right, it is mostly packaging. though stuff like AppImage can involve using scripts for certain tasks.
Also, AppImage is just one of many possible formats. I do not know which one is the best, and it is better to not start this discussion here anyway, everyone has their own opinion and preferences.

@openmastering that is very appreciated, but a few people alone are not enough.
I would love to work on these things full time, but without a massive audience for support, it won't happen.

So for now I can help on maintenance, providing a way to do automated builds.
Someone else on IRC is trying to get a few more things working on the Qt5 build.

Are you familiar with AppImage or similar frameworks? Or do you know anyone who is? (and is willing to help, of course)

@openmastering no idea, that would require digging a lot deeper.
It is an old project that has been barely been kept up to date, so I would guess not much... but it is pure speculation of course.

@torsten_torsten it is not, it can sorta load multiple files but not in the way you expect.

it can play all loaded files concurrently but you have to start/stop/loop/whatever them independently, and there's only one waveview displayed at a time

@openmastering well "just" bridge in carla with that and we have access to pretty much all plugins we want.
Carla has a native API that allows to be reused inside other tools, Zrythm is already making use of this.

So many possibilities, so little time...

Rezound with a small update for Qt5 support looks quite decent.

Maybe a good alternative to Audacity?

@gcrkrause @interru @unfa @sudo IMO bitcoin is inherently flawed because of the power inbalances it creates.
we go from a system of inequality to another one, this new one just happens to give power to big tech companies that have big servers at their disposal.

@consint they are still closed-source though, so no lv2 or arm versions possible, or any tweaks at all.

Last month there was no "kxstudio monthly report", due to special circumstances not having a whole lot of stuff to mention/talk about.
But no news is bad news, kinda... So I published a mini-patreon update just now https://www.patreon.com/posts/51164697

@unfa yes indeed, we do not want to be the ones spreading misinformation. on the upside, I got win32 and win64 builds of audacity building already. submitted the relevant mingw fixes upstream in a PR.
Will take care of macos builds soon.
So we are ready for the worst-case scenario.

Can you imagine Audacity using Qt and Carla's custom theme?

I guess it would look a little something like this...

🧙 🚀

works on a real windows too, trying quickly in a VM with a custom theme.

btw, I did not know before, but wxwidgets supports Qt... that leads to some interesting ideas 🤔