On Dec 6 2022, at 6:52 am, John Allsup s.chalisque@gmail.com wrote:
A general topic I'm interested in, with many applications, is the possibility of using OSC or some custom UDP protocol for messages. As such, all the core application needs to do in its run loop is to check for pending packets and process any that have arrived (the rest of receiving could be on another thread).
For example, so that you could use essentially any device with rotary knobs or buttons to control things like line width or colour of the selected object or, more generally, anything else.
Hello John, That sounds cool, I'd love some custom Inkscape Hardware controls. I think probably the related technology that Inkscape uses is the GLib Actions that are exported over DBus. These can have various values and can be inspected over the bus. DBus does have network support, but it is generally not designed to work over network connections as it has different latency expectations. But if you're talking about a device that would use USB or something similar that could definitely work with some connecting software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus https://docs.gtk.org/gio/iface.Action.html Sounds like a fun project! Ted