falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF-Widgets?tab=readme-ov-file#dpf-widgets is looking specially neat today. 📸

Recently added a LVGL widget, as a way to learn the toolkit as I might need it for work.

Trying to make DPF a nice little framework to work with, it has been 12 years already! 😅

Using a web browser view as an audio plugin UI allows for some very weird interactions... 😅

Let's play a little game...

What is working in this picture that shouldn't? Can you tell?

New Cardinal 24.04 release is here

Focuses on updating the base VCV Rack 2.4 and adds quite a few new modules, bringing the module count to 1193.

Changelog and downloads at https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.04

I updated the web version too, so you can try it directly in your browser by visiting https://cardinal.kx.studio/live

Have fun! ☀️

Just posted a personal update (April 2024) on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/101700972

TL;DR being "life's tough but finally starting to get less stressful" plus "will start doing opensource project work on thursdays as a schedule/routine going forward"

Thanks everyone for the support so far!

I find it a bit sad/weird that so many people take what an open-source project gives out "as-is", without the notion of the entire thing being modifiable.

Say a project only allows to load 5 potatoes at a time into a pot, we can go there and bump that hardcoded limit into something more suitable to us.
Instead of thinking "welp that project can only load 5 potatoes, not suitable for me then will look for something else"

It becomes no different from proprietary solutions at that point...

Also with hacks for loading Qt WebEngine things if available, that means dynamically loading and calling a C++ API without linking to it.
C++ symbol demangling is quite something... 🙈

Likely to come to DPF at a later point, for now this is just to show a local url without needing to do any fancy IPC.

Working hacks are the best hacks.

I needed to get a web view on a plugin UI but directly loading gtk/qt for it is nasty, would easily break the host and other plugins...

Using a separate process is key, but then that means having to ship a separate binary...?
Well actually no!

With fancy ld-linux setup we can have a shared library also running as an executable.
Then put dlopen/dlsym stuff to load webkit/webengine symbols and we got it all self-contained. 🎉

https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop/blob/main/src/plugin/WebViewX11.cpp