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authorDavid Robillard <d@drobilla.net>2010-10-04 18:21:08 +0000
committerDavid Robillard <d@drobilla.net>2010-10-04 18:21:08 +0000
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+# LV2 UI Extension
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2009-2010 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net>
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
+# OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+# ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
+# OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+@prefix ui: <http://lv2plug.in/ns/extensions/ui#> .
+@prefix lv2: <http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#> .
+@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
+@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
+@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
+@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
+@prefix doap: <http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#> .
+@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
+
+<http://lv2plug.in/ns/extensions/ui> a lv2:Specification ;
+ doap:license <http://usefulinc.com/doap/licenses/mit> ;
+ doap:name "LV2 UI" ;
+ doap:release [
+ doap:revision "2pre" ;
+ doap:created "2010-05-10"
+ ] ;
+ doap:maintainer [
+ a foaf:Person ;
+ foaf:name "Lars Luthman" ;
+ foaf:mbox <mailto:lars.luthman@gmail.com>
+ ] , [
+ a foaf:Person ;
+ foaf:name "David Robillard" ;
+ foaf:homepage <http://drobilla.net/> ;
+ rdfs:seeAlso <http://drobilla.net/drobilla.rdf>
+ ] ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+This extension defines an interface that can be used in LV2 plugins and hosts
+to create UIs for plugins. The UIs are similar to plugins and reside in shared object
+files in an LV2 bundle. UIs are associated with a plugin in RDF using the triples
+<pre>
+@prefix ui: &lt;http://lv2plug.in/ns/extensions/ui#&gt; .
+
+&lt;http://my.plugin&gt; ui:ui &lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; .
+&lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; a ui:GtkUI ;
+ ui:binary &lt;myui.so&gt; .
+</pre>
+where &lt;http://my.plugin&gt; is the URI of the plugin,
+&lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; is the URI of the plugin UI and &lt;myui.so&gt;
+is the relative URI to the shared object file.
+
+While it is possible to have the plugin UI and the plugin in the same shared
+object file it is probably a good idea to keep them separate so that hosts
+that don't want UIs don't have to load the UI code. A UI MUST specify its
+class in the RDF data (ui:GtkUI in the above example). The class defines what
+type the UI is, e.g. what graphics toolkit it uses. Any type of UI class can
+be defined separately from this extension.
+
+(Note: the prefix above is used throughout this file for the same URI)
+
+It is possible to have multiple UIs for the same plugin, or to have the UI
+for a plugin in a different bundle from the actual plugin - this way people
+other than the plugin author can write plugin UIs independently without
+editing the original plugin bundle.
+
+Note that the process that loads the shared object file containing the UI
+code and the process that loads the shared object file containing the actual
+plugin implementation are not necessarily the same process (and not even
+necessarily on the same machine). This means that plugin and UI code can
+<b>not</b> use singletons and global variables and expect them to refer to
+the same objects in the UI and the actual plugin. The function callback
+interface defined in this header is the only method of communication between
+UIs and plugin instances (extensions may define more, though this is
+discouraged unless absolutely necessary since the significant benefits of
+network transparency and serialisability are lost).
+
+Since the LV2 specification itself allows for extensions that may add new
+functionality that could be useful to control with a UI, this extension
+allows for meta-extensions that can extend the interface between the UI and
+the host. These extensions mirror the extensions used for plugins - there are
+required and optional "features" that you declare in the RDF data for the UI as
+<pre>
+&lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; lv2:requiredFeature &lt;http://my.feature&gt; .
+&lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; lv2:optionalFeature &lt;http://my.feature&gt; .
+</pre>
+The rules for a UI with a required or optional feature are identical to those
+of lv2:Plugin instances: if a UI declares a feature as required, the host is
+NOT allowed to load it unless it supports that feature; and if it does support
+a feature, it MUST pass an appropriate LV2_Feature struct to the UI's
+instantiate() method. These features may be used to specify how to pass
+specific types of data between the UI and the plugin port buffers
+(see LV2UI_Write_Function for details).
+
+UIs written to this specification do not need to be threadsafe - the
+functions defined below may only be called in the same thread the UI
+main loop is running in.
+
+Note that this UI extension is NOT a lv2:Feature. There is no way for a
+plugin to know whether the host that loads it supports UIs or not, and
+the plugin must always work without the UI (although it may be rather
+useless unless it has been configured using the UI in a previous session).
+From the plugin perspective, control from a UI is the same as control
+from anywhere else (e.g. the host, the user): via ports.
+
+A UI does not have to be a graphical widget, it could just as well be a
+server listening for OSC input or an interface to some sort of hardware
+device, depending on the RDF class of the UI.
+""" .
+
+
+ui:UI a rdfs:Class ;
+ rdfs:subClassOf lv2:Resource ;
+ rdfs:label "LV2 UI" ;
+ rdfs:comment "A UI for an LV2 plugin" .
+
+ui:GtkUI a rdfs:Class ;
+ rdfs:subClassOf ui:UI ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+A UI where the LV2_Widget is a pointer to a Gtk+ 2.0 compatible GtkWidget,
+and the host guarantees that the Gtk+ library has been initialised and the
+Glib main loop is running before an UI of this type is instantiated.""" .
+
+ui:makeSONameResident a lv2:Feature ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+This feature is ELF specific - it should only be used by UIs that
+use the ELF file format for the UI shared object files (e.g. on Linux).
+If it is required by an UI the UI should also list a number of SO names
+(shared object names) for libraries that the UI shared object
+depends on and that may not be unloaded during the lifetime of the host
+process, using the predicate @c ui:residentSONames, like this:
+<pre>
+&lt;http://my.pluginui&gt; ui:residentSONames "libgtkmm-2.4.so.1", "libfoo.so.0"
+</pre>
+The host MUST then make sure that the shared libraries with the given ELF
+SO names are not unloaded when the plugin UI is, but stay loaded during
+the entire lifetime of the host process. On Linux this can be accomplished
+by calling dlopen() on the shared library file with that SO name and never
+calling a matching dlclose(). However, if a plugin UI requires the
+@c ui:makeSONameResident feature, it MUST ALWAYS be safe for the host to
+just never unload the shared object containing the UI implementation, i.e.
+act as if the UI required the @c ui:makeResident feature instead. Thus
+the host only needs to find the shared library files corresponding to the
+given SO names if it wants to save RAM by unloading the UI shared object
+file when it is no longer needed. The data pointer for the LV2_Feature for
+this feature should always be set to NULL.
+"""^^lv2:basicXHTML .
+
+ui:noUserResize a lv2:Feature ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+If a UI requires this feature it indicates that it does not make sense
+to let the user resize the main widget, and the host should prevent that.
+This feature may not make sense for all UI types. The data pointer for the
+LV2_Feature for this feature should always be set to NULL.
+""" .
+
+ui:fixedSize a lv2:Feature ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+If a UI requires this feature it indicates the same thing as
+ui:noUserResize, and additionally it means that the UI will not resize
+the main widget on its own - it will always remain the same size (e.g. a
+pixmap based GUI). This feature may not make sense for all UI types.
+The data pointer for the LV2_Feature for this feature should always be set
+to NULL.
+""" .
+
+ui:PortNotification a rdfs:Class ;
+ rdfs:subClassOf [
+ a owl:Restriction ;
+ owl:onProperty ui:plugin ;
+ owl:someValuesFrom lv2:Plugin ;
+ owl:cardinality 1 ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+A PortNotification MUST have exactly one ui:plugin which is a lv2:Plugin.
+""" ] , [
+ a owl:Restriction ;
+ owl:onProperty ui:portIndex ;
+ owl:someValuesFrom xsd:decimal ;
+ owl:cardinality 1 ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+A PortNotification MUST have exactly one ui:portIndex which is an xsd:decimal.
+""" ] ;
+ rdfs:comment "Port Notification" .
+
+ui:portNotification a rdf:Property ;
+ rdfs:domain ui:UI ;
+ rdfs:range ui:PortNotification ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+Indicates that a UI should receive notification (via port_event on
+LV2UI_Descriptor) when a particular port's value changes.
+""" .
+
+ui:plugin a rdf:Property ;
+ rdfs:domain ui:PortNotification ;
+ rdfs:range lv2:Plugin ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+The plugin a portNotification applies to.
+""" .
+
+ui:portIndex a rdf:Property ;
+ rdfs:domain ui:PortNotification ;
+ rdfs:range xsd:decimal ;
+ rdfs:comment """
+The index of the port a portNotification applies to.
+""" .
+