[Clam-devel] Re: VST plugins with qt interface!

[David García Garzón]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 13:09:06 Andreas Beisler wrote:
> I succeeded reparenting the system window that we get from the host as a
> QWidget. It just worked the straight-forward way by just compiling with
> static runtime (/MT).
> When I tested reparenting the system window with dynamic runtime (/MD)
> nothing happened.

That's interesting. Anyway, do we get any benefits by using the sys window we 
get? Does it solves any of the many problems (scaling, events...)? Are you 
using the version from the svn which fixed some bugs?

Because the options I guess you are not using mingw but visual, aren't you? 
Nice to know that it also works in visual.

> There are still some open issues tho. I.e. the test if qApp exists is
> not really working for a DLL. It basically creates a new QApplication
> every time you instantiate a plugin.

That's more or less the intent. I mean, the qapp is for each plugin instance. 
As plugin we don't know whether the host is a Qt app or whether other plugins 
also use Qt. We need a qapp to have an event loop and to initialize qt. Maybe 
there is a cheaper way to do that than creating a QApp, but i dunno.

> The good thing is: I got someone from trolltech who will spend his next
> 'creative friday' on the open issues to open up qt to the vst world.

Having a troll involved in that would be fantastic! It was hard for me 
figuring out the inner working of Qt in windows, an insider could do a lot 
better and often could be better to adapt Qt than to hack around.

> I'll keep you updated.

Yes, please. Thanks for the research.

David.



> David García Garzón wrote:
> > Yes, also when i did weird things happened. I deduced that you cannot
> > turn that window a QWidget because then Qt overwrites the callbacks of
> > the host for that window. So i created a child in the win32 way and then
> > use it for the QWidget.
> >
> > Notice that i fixed a couple of bugs. An updated version is in:
> > http://clam-
> > project.org/clam/trunk/CLAM/examples/PluginExamples/VstPluginExample/
> > And the interesting (and clam independent bits, regardless the name), are
> > in QClamVstEditor.*xx
> >
> > This is very experimental stuff but I cannot dedicate time on this for
> > some time, so if you manage to enhance the behaviour, i would be very
> > glad if you can report it back.
> >
> > David.
> >
> > A Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:02:05, Andreas Beisler va escriure:
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> I just had a quick look at the spike solution for creating vst plugins
> >> with a qt gui.
> >>
> >> In QADelayEditor-0001.cpp I saw that you took the window handle that the
> >> vst host passes to you and then you created a child window for that,
> >> which is a QWidget.
> >> Is there any way to re-use the window handle from the host directly?
> >> I did some preliminary tests, but it failed. It just worked by creating
> >> a new child window.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Andreas
> >>
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