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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
Edited 2 months ago
It's incredibly slow progress to get this basic UI stuff ongoing for a daw. That said, this will pay back with complex UI views daws tend to have such as track mixer and arrangement.
I've played mindgames what if I would leverage cairo or similar library, and really weighted that option with critical mindset. Then when looking deeper I cannot really guarantee same way latency as if I control rendering surface. The quality of the whole app would suffer by a factor.
Finally, a DAW can have however many data points on display animating at the same time, which is already with custom UI framework a technical challenge to render properly.
Based on these conclusions I rather spend hour or two a day doing basic UI stuff from scratch with no progress for few weeks, month or even longer than do that. It's sucks now but conditions at least increasingly will get better.
Leveragng feels attractive at first but is a route where conditions will only get increasingly worse.
I've played mindgames what if I would leverage cairo or similar library, and really weighted that option with critical mindset. Then when looking deeper I cannot really guarantee same way latency as if I control rendering surface. The quality of the whole app would suffer by a factor.
Finally, a DAW can have however many data points on display animating at the same time, which is already with custom UI framework a technical challenge to render properly.
Based on these conclusions I rather spend hour or two a day doing basic UI stuff from scratch with no progress for few weeks, month or even longer than do that. It's sucks now but conditions at least increasingly will get better.
Leveragng feels attractive at first but is a route where conditions will only get increasingly worse.
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