[Lash-dev] proposal: support for native event loops

[Markus Grabner]

                Dear LASH developers!

    When I started to investigate Linux audio software a while ago, I soon 
realized that LASH is a core component to handle the large diversity of 
applications. Unfortuately, adoption of LASH is suboptimal, and I thought 
about how LASH could be made more attractive to developers to integrate into 
their own projects. IMO, a very useful extension would be a layer on top of 
the current DBUS-based implementation which integrates LASH into the major GUI 
frameworks, e.g., employing the signal/slot concept in Qt. I wrote some 
experimental code to demonstrate handling of LASH events in the standard Qt 
event loop and processing of events in user-defined slots. This gives a very 
clean API which could easily be used by an experienced Qt developer. If you 
are interested, I can make the code available to you.

I noticed that there has not been much progress with LASH recently. Did you 
encounter some fundamental problem which needs to be resolved before coding 
can continue, or is it "only" lack of time as for many open source projects? 
In the latter case, I am willing (and hopefully able) to contribute a little 
bit to this great project!

        Kind regards,
                Markus


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Markus Grabner
Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision
Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16a/II, 8010 Graz, Austria
WWW: http://www.icg.tugraz.at/Members/grabner