Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
- Subject: Re: Reliably finding the binary for an audio unit from a host
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:59:46 +0200
- (NSString *)bundlePath gets you the path to the bundle, once you
have identified it.
HTH
--th
2011/7/6 Stefan Gretscher <email@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
> since audio units can be installed in multiple locations (e.g. user vs. local domain), it is possible for a user to get confused about which plug-in (and more particular, which version of a given plug-in) is installed where.
> To resolve this confusion, one could consider designing a dialog similar to Logic's Audio Unit Manager, but with an extra column added containing the location of the each audio unit on the disk.
> The problem is, how can the host retrieve this information reliably, when it only has FindNextComponent() as a starting point?
> I mean, when you program an audio unit you can use your own well-known and hardcoded bundle identifier to find the binary, but this information is not available from the outside (i.e. from the host) as far as I can tell -
> at least I did not find according API in the Component Manager or in the newer Audio Component Service. Am I missing something obvious here?
>
> Thank you,
> Stefan Gretscher
>
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