QLFAUST

QuickLook plugin for FAUST Programming Language

Features

• Syntax highlighting for FAUST DSP code.

• SVG Preview

• Audio Preview with UI

• Supports highlighting for:

  • Keywords: process, let, import, component, where, letrec, etc.
  • Data types: int, float.
  • Strings: Strings enclosed in double quotes.
  • Numbers: Integer and floating-point numbers.
  • Faust Composition Operators: :<, :>, ~, :
  • Mathematical operators: +, -, *, /, etc.
  • Comments: Both line (//) and block (/* */) comments.

• Monospaced font for easy reading of Faust code.

• Distinct color coding for each type of code element (e.g., keywords, strings, operators, comments).

This repository has container app with extension and document-based test app.

Current version: 0.0.6

macOS 12+

Build instructions

Use Xcode project; see ImportLibrary/generate_xcode_project.sh to download FAUST includes and binaries if the main project fails to build

Roadmap

• Support & embed faust libraries
• Add line numbering to the preview.
• Refactor to support custom themes for syntax highlighting.
• Improve performance when handling large Faust files.
• Automated build with libfaust binary
• Interactive SVG view - current realisation is missing links
• Improve widgets rendering/layout (FaustSwiftUI package)
• Add style metadata support to widget layout (FaustSwiftUI package)
• Fix features of document-based app

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FAUST Programming language: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust

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license: MIT
libfaust license: LGPL 2.1