[PD-dev] compiling FLEXT vst~ on Macintosh

[Miller Puckette]

OK, I looked at the editor window stuff and it looks like it needs
to be filled out as an interface to the OSX window creation and
management code... also, I presume somewhere, someone is drawing stuff
on the window, but I couldn't figure out where and how that should
happen.  I think my next step should be to look at vst~ on a windows
machine and try to trace function calls around to see what's happening...
yuck!

Miller

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Hi Miller,
> many thanks for the contribution - I think that a lot of people will  
> be happy about it.
> I can't say if it makes sense to "keep" compatibility with Carbon  
> plugins - considering that they have never really worked with vst~.
> Also when i was working on the Mac code of vst~ the main problem was  
> the editor window - i can't really remember but there must still be  
> some code missing to actually handle user interaction (in  
> editormac.hpp).
> all the best, Thomas
> 
> Am 07.07.2008 um 22:17 schrieb Miller Puckette:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >For a music production I had to compile vst~ for OSX in Flext.  I  
> >noticed
> >that there is already code in "vsthost.cpp" that seems to try to  
> >load vst
> >plug-ins in the form of "carbon" code resources (search for  
> >FSPathMakeFSSpec)
> >but I found no compiled vst~ in Pd-extended, nor does anyone on the  
> >list
> >seem to think this exists.
> >
> >I adapted the code so that it loads macho vst plug-ins.  It seems to  
> >work,
> >except that, in the help patch, when I try to open the editing window
> >nothing comes up.  I suspect this has to do with something other than
> >vst~ proper but haven't looked into it since I don't know how the  
> >editor
> >stuff is supposed to work.
> >
> >Before I go on and submit this as a formal patch, I'd like to know  
> >if anyone
> >knows whether the carbon code should be kept around (do there still  
> >exist
> >vst plugins in carbon taht are worth trying to support?) and whether  
> >I should
> >look harder to figure out why the editing window in the help file  
> >doesn't
> >open.  For anyone curious, grab the patch (vst-OSX.patch) and/or the
> >cmopiled extern (vst~.pd_darwin) from http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/tmp/ .
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
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> Thomas Grill
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