Re: Is it possible to provide AudioUnits a Short Name?
Re: Is it possible to provide AudioUnits a Short Name?
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to provide AudioUnits a Short Name?
- From: Stefan Gretscher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:18:24 +0100
Am 03.11.2006 um 20:48 schrieb William Stewart:
On 03/11/2006, at 9:47 AM, Jim Heintz wrote:
I would like to be able to offer long and short names for a plugin
I am working on.
Currently the way a plugin specifies it's name it in the ".r" file
like this:
#define NAME "MANUFACTURER: NAME"
i.e.
#define NAME "Jobob Plugs-Inc: Jobob Super Cool EQ"
If Joebob has more than one plug, this naming becomes a problem
when viewed on the Logic Insert area of the Logic Channel strip.
It would appear as "Jobob Su".
If Jobob has another plug named:
#define NAME "Jobob Plugs-Inc: Jobob Super Cool Amp Model"
They would both appear as "Jobob Su".
This sounds like a bug in Logic - we always anticipated that the
manu name would be broken out and used in a different context than
the AU name (for instance, have a look at how we use these in
AULab). Please file a bug - details are at http://
bugreporter.apple.com
Logic does break out the manufacturer name (as separated by the ':')
from the resource fork.
In Jim's example it would split the names just like AULab as "Jobob
Super Cool EQ" and "Jobob Super Cool Amp Model".
That still would leave the app with two plug-ins named "Jobob Super
Cool ..." which is too long to differenciate when displaying it in
the channel strip.
To illustrate the problem in AU Lab: insert an AULowpass and an
AULowShelf, they look very similar in the channel strip, just a one-
letter difference:
But how to solve this issue other than just naming the AUs
differently...?
I mean even if there was a way to provide some short name, how to
guarantee that no other manufacturer comes up with the same or very
similar short name?
How about CoreAudio providing some utility function host apps can
call which looks at all the names of all the AUs that the host wants
to use and shortens them to the length requested by the host app in a
way that they are still recognizable but also differ enough from each
other to remain meaningful to the user?
Best,
Stefan
Thanks
Bill
Is it possible under the AudioUnit standard to supply a short name
that would be used in cases like this?
Best regards,
Jim Heintz
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