Re: Filing of User Presets
Re: Filing of User Presets
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets
- From: Urs Heckmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:30:13 +0200
Am Freitag, 25.10.02, um 04:30 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Marc Poirier:
However, not all AUs will have foreign sisters. I think there should
be
a simple mechanism for an AudioUnit to tell the host what it likes to
get fed in addition to classInfo.
It's probably not necessary since we're talking about a separately
keyed
data section. First of all, a host won't even try to load previous VST
settings unless there is an AU with certain matching characteristics
(subtype, name, whatever). And at that point, the host can decide to
pass
the data in the vstdata section, and the worst thing that happens is
that
the AU ignores it (or more likely, doesn't notice it). Unless I'm not
thinking of some situations, it doesn't seem to me like that sort of
plug-to-host notification is useful.
Hmm, I think we're talking different things (probably my fault due to
lingual restrictions).
In the proper world we have dedicated locations for plugin settings. In
vst, we usually have something like myApp/PlugSettings/APlug/ or a
subfolder in myApp/VstPlugins/ for the Plug and its settings.
Exchanging settings between different hosts/machines/platforms etc.
normally means copying the preset file. But why should an AU host have
a Settings/VstPlugs/APlug/ folder? (There is only one host afaik that
does both) - And how "clean" would it be to copy a fxp into the AU
settings folder? What other means would a host have to know there are
foreign presets?
Thus I suggest an import functionality where the user can specify the
folder to look at (File Dialog), the AU specifies (hence reports) what
UniqueIDs are valid and then all found fxps etc will be batch copied
into new AU settings files with the data extracted in vstdata section
and saved as proper files in the correct place. I think that would be
clean...?
(just look at VST, how many redundant
ways are there to say that a plug "can do" something? :).
fully agree! :)
But we havn't much redundancy in this, have we? - One for "I like" and
one for "here is"
Cheers,
;) Urs
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