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>On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

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>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:50:10PM +0000, Aurélien Leblond wrote:

>>

>>> @Fons: I phrased it wrong the first time :) by expensive, I meant that

>>> my poor design was creating a lot of xruns :)

>>

>> As Dave has already pointer out, a plugin - at least the DSP

>> part of it - is not the proper place to do anything X.

>>

>> It would probably fairly easy for the host to provide X,Y on

>> two control ports, just as it provides the Jack ports, MIDI

>> interfaces etc.

> Just trying to be the voice of reason here... There are plenty of

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> tools out there to convert joystick/mouse/whatever position into

> sensible MIDI messages. I've even written a few myself:

>

> http://lsmi-all.sf.net

>

> IMHO, one should never need to deal with input devices in a plugin.

> And, yes, the host could also provide this information, but I don't

> think it's the hosts responsibility to be providing the plugin any

> information that the user didn't explicitly request be delivered to

> the plugin (e.g. by clicking on an XY Pad control and moving the

> cursor position).

>

> Anyway, if you ever want to be able to record and playback this

> theremin sound, MIDI is the way to go.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

I'll remove the mouse plugin from the AVW ones so.
Thanks for the help!
Aurélien

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