[chuck-users] Oscillosope UI

[Spencer Salazar]

Also, feel free to make a PR if you youre chugins are cross-platform and
you want to share any of them in the main chugin repo!

Spencer



On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM Spencer Salazar <spencer.salazar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Mario-
>
> Yep, Perry's got the right idea. The big cleanup in the ChucK 1.4 update
> left out a component that had been built to support GUI chugins, but two
> alpha-status examples you can look at are MAUI.chug and chugl (ChucK GL).
> These are currently Mac only.
> https://github.com/spencersalazar/MAUI.chug
> https://github.com/spencersalazar/chugl
>
> I recently spent a little time reimplementing support for these GUI
> chugins, which works in the current master branch of ChucK or will work in
> an upcoming 1.4.0.1 release that is being prepared soon.
>
> The basic idea is that most GUI frameworks expect to operate on a main
> thread of sorts. Chugins that want to run a GUI can submit a hook/callback
> for chuck to call in its main thread, which is otherwise
> mostly idle (chuck's VM and audio synth are running in a separate real-time
> audio thread).
>
> There are other considerations such as what happens if two GUI chugins
> compete with each other, how GUI chugins are meant to work in miniAudicle,
> Windows/Linux, etc. But the basic idea is there / not crazy!
>
> Spencer
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 6:50 AM Mario Buoninfante <
> mario.buoninfante at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I've been poking around with Chugins and created a couple of
>> things I thought were 'missing' in the official ChucK and Chugin repos,
>> UGens like Wrap, Clip, Sample and Hold, etc. (
>> https://github.com/mariobuoninfante/ChucK_chugins), and I was thinking
>> about adding an oscilloscope as well.
>> Recently I also put together a clunky class that allows you to plot
>> things using gnuplot, but it's an offline thing, then you need to use
>> Std.system() (that means using --caution-to-the-wind), I mean it's not
>> ideal to be honest, especially if you're looking for an oscilloscope.
>> I was wondering, would a Chugin be the right thing to work on to create
>> an oscilloscope?
>> I never dealt with UIs before, so I could be saying something completely
>> naive here, but I was thinking about having a Chugin you can connect UGens
>> to then display their waveform.
>> Then have methods that allow to change the oscilloscope settings (ie
>> x-axis and y-axis resolution, etc.).
>> Does anybody have any experience with this kind of things? Chugins with
>> UIs?
>> Is it even sensible?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
>>
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