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Shifrin ·
Hi,
Seeing as it is possible to create SVG GUIs entirely within Synthmaker, and the VST spec allows for dynamic resizing of GUIs, would it be possible to implement such a thing in SM VST/i's?! I guess it could be quite time consuming creating a totally scalable GUI, but this would surely be anothing "string to SM's bow" and something not possible in almost all other VST/i's!!
The number of threads over at KvR I've read over the years regarding GUIs being too large, too small etc - this would do away with that totally - size could even be linked to preset etc.. 😉
Shif.
Shifrin ·
I just thought, there would possibly have to be some way to force the same aspect-ratio when sizing if this were made possible 😉
Shif.
Nu Audio Science ·
No you dont have to force the aspect Shif it doesn't actually look too bad when you do it 🙂
One of the coders i work with made a step sequencer in JUCE and it was elastic and had tearable panels too, Both things i would like to see in SM at some point.
Shifrin ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: No you dont have to force the aspect Shif it doesn't actually look too bad when you do it 🙂
Heh, I know 😉 you can get some pretty funky results!
Shif.
Tom7777 ·
I made one but the actuall vst area must be set at a certain size though, it would be cool to have a realtime updating version like you want though, this would require new modules though as if it was just built into SM so that it resizes when an object goes off the screen this could get in the way of certain projects such as games and dynamic based GUIs 🙂
malc ·
As Dan says the VST window size must be set when the plugiun launches in a host. But you can change this once the plugin is running. I'm not sure if it would work well to allow the VST window to be resized in the normal way you would resize a window (ie by dragging with the mouse). Might be a bit slow but we could try it.
Something that would be pretty easy to do (he says without thinking too much) is to allow you to have a discrete set of zoom states. So you could set your plugin to be small, medium or large. We could also allow you to have different discrete sizes so you could creaete something like Vanguard has with a compact and expanded view.
You probably already know that if you zoom out before exporting as VST in SM then the exported VST will appear in miniature but fully functional so the ability to scale is already there.
I think there are definite possibilities here, just need to do a bit of experimenting to find out what will work. Does anybody have a machine for warping space-time, I need more hours in my day 🙂
Shifrin ·
Sounds good malc, I appreciate that it could cause major slow-down 😉
Would be great to have 'compact' and 'fullsize' GUI's like Vanguard et al. I'd thought about that before but hadn't asked - or realised that would be a side affect of being able to alter the GUI size 🙂
As for needing a to warp space-time, surely you already are by virtue of your mass 😉
Cheers,
Shif.
Tom7777 ·
There needs to be the option for the panel to be static also, maybe make it so that this is a tick box option on the vst export options.
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