Re: Two Audio Units with the same View class. Only one shows in DAW.
Re: Two Audio Units with the same View class. Only one shows in DAW.
- Subject: Re: Two Audio Units with the same View class. Only one shows in DAW.
- From: Admiral Quality <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:22:49 -0500
Have Apple ever explained why there's no namespace feature to avoid
this nonsense?
And yes, any UUID should do. A suitably long hash of the current time
is probably a fairly safe bet.
- Mike/AQ
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Brian Willoughby
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> If your script can run on the user's target system, then it could scan all
> existing plugins for conflicting names. That way, even a poor quality random
> number generator would work just fine.
>
> I get the impression, though, that your script runs in the build environment,
> so there's probably no way to know what other plugins might be installed when
> the plugin is actually used. If your replacement name is long enough to allow
> for a good UUID, then it should still work, but as you say it needs to be
> guaranteed unique across all possible build systems.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Jeff McClintock <email@hidden> wrote:
>> What I've resorted to at the movement is a script to modify the wrapper
>> binary by search/replacing the Objective-C class name with a randomly
>> generated name. For this to work, the replacement name must be exactly the
>> same number of characters as the original name. Also the random number
>> generator needs to be high quality to ensure two plugins don't end up with
>> the same class name. *Seems* to work fine so far, even if it seems like a
>> nasty kludge.
>>
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