I agree to the suggestions about Python/GUI, using Lettuce, and about
using FLTK for a simple crossplatform csound-only setup.
I just wanted to mention that I discovered today that FLTK actually
has a menu widget and a choice box, they are just not implemented as
csound opcodes (yet).
Maybe Gabriel has done it in his csound version ?

Oeyvind

2007/10/24, Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@ear.ie>:
> I'm not sure if this exists. From what I can tell fltk has not really
> been updated in quite a while. A lot of people who required GUI's these
> days seem to build them themselves using their preferred GUI toolkit and
> then link to Csound using the API. More and more people seem to be using
> Python for this as it is pretty easy to learn. In fact I would imagine
> that after learning Csound Python should not prove difficult at all.
> Finally, if you are working on windows Lettuce has a menu object you can
> use. Lettuce GUI components are different than fltk opcodes as they use
> the channel software bus to communicate with Csound. They're are some
> simple examples of the menu item in the installation directory. Note
> that to implement the menu you have to hard code it rather than drop it
> onto a GUI frame. The latest unreleased version of lettuce is available
> here: http://rorywalsh.ear.ie/Lettuce32Setup.exe The reason why this
> version hasn't been publically released is that I don't have time to
> support it!
>
> Rory.
>
> p.s. if you want cross-platform-ness use fltk!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Lou Cohen wrote:
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > I'm considering implementing a new GUI for my csound improvisation
> > orchestra.
> >
> > I'm impressed by the FLxxx series of opcodes and in my tentative
> > experiments they behave well. One GUI object that I would have expected
> > to see, however, seems to be missing: a menu. What I mean is a kind of
> > popup menu in which the current selection appears in somewhere in the
> > body of a panel. The user clicks on it, and set of text-identified
> > choices appears. When one of them is selected, the menu outputs a value
> > that tells the csound orchestra which menu item was selected (or is
> > currently selected.)
> >
> > I'm reading documentation for 5.04, and I'm wondering whether the FL
> > opcodes might have been extended after this version.
> >
> > Or perhaps there's another way to implement such a menu?
> >
> > As always, thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> > -Lou Cohen
> >
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