Re: [Audacity-devel] GUI support for VST committed

[Leland <le...@au...>]

Gale Andrews wrote:
> | From Leland <le...@au...> 
> | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:36:12 -0500
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] GUI support for VST committed
>> Gale Andrews wrote:
>>> | From Leland <le...@au...> 
>>> | Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:42:30 -0500
>>> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] GUI support for VST committed
>>>> Gale Andrews wrote:
>>>>> | From Leland <le...@au...> 
>>>>> | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:58:51 -0500
>>>>> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] GUI support for VST committed
>>>>>> Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
>>>>>>> A user has reported this package:
>>>>>>> http://antress.webng.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried "ModernBooster" and "ModernDeEsser" and they both crashed on Preview
>>>>>>> and applying the Effect. Also I'm not sure what the B/W controls on
>>>>>>> ModernBooster are supposed to do, but clicking and/or dragging them has no
>>>>>>> visible effect for me.
>>>>>>>
>>>> Just committed a fix.  The plugin was requesting time information and we were returning
>>>> NULL, which is valid.  Unfortunately, the plugin doesn't seem to like that, so not we
>>>> return a valid ptr to an empty (zeroed) time info block.
>>>>
>>>>>> Haven't figured out what's wrong yet, but those B/W controls work for me.  They
>>>>>> change the led meter above them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That really doesn't happen for you?
>>>>> Not with the "mousemu" mouse emulator I normally use 
>>>>> (it lets numpad keys mimic a real mouse). With a real 
>>>>> mouse if I click repeatedly until I get tired I can manage
>>>>> to increment the counters by 1. The control only appears 
>>>>> as a white push button type of control for me. This is 
>>>>> on XP and Vista. 
>>>>>
>>>> So your's doesn't look like this?
>>>>
>>>> http://homerow.net/audacity/ModernBooster.png
>>> It looks exactly like that, except that clicking in those B/W  
>>> controls behaves as I stated. How does it work - does it 
>>> depend where you click to make it increment the counter 
>>> up or down? 
>>>
>> I'm just clicking, holding, and moving the mouse up and down.
> 
> Hi Leland, 
> 
> After updating to your second VST fix, those two Antress plug-ins
> preview and apply the effect fine, and the B/W controls are now 
> draggable to increment the counter, even with the mouse emulator.
> That certainly didn't work before, which was why I thought you had
> to click in a particular place. I'll let the complainant know and report
> back if he finds problems with any of the other plug-ins in that 
> collection. 
> 
There's still a couple of problems that the Antress fellas exhibit.  One
is you get a C++ Exception in the Deubg output window of VS when switching
from one plugin to another and the other is when using the ones named like
ModernVRME.dll.

Leland