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BasherT ·
Please could we have width and height inputs for the MGUI component?
I need to be able to have a pop-up for my latest project the size of which (i.e. width and height) changes dynamically depending upon user interaction. At present there is no way to achieve this in S|M AFAIK.
Thanks
exonerate ·
yeah i would love to see this as well 🙂
it would be really good if you could change the size of the front panel dynamically, this would open up a lot of possibilities, things like having a keyboard at the bottom of your synth and then the user can click a button to close the keyboard, so it would disappear and the front panel would become smaller, you could also use the slide component so that the keyboard closes up gradually and when you open it, it would come down gradually.
another advantage is if you had a synth that had pages you could make different pages different sizes, a good example of this is 'refx vanguard' the front panel is really small with only the basic settings, and then when you open the other page it drops down into a lot larger front panel with a lot more controls. things like this are great for saving screen space, because the synth only takes up screen space when you need to tweak the more advanced settings.
so yeah, i really want to see SM be able to do these kind of things, it would be a killer feature 🙂
cheers 😉
oddson ·
Does the VST spec support this?
exonerate ·
hmm.... thinking about it, i think the synths that i've seen this on have been DXI, although i'm sure i've used vst's that do this, but i'm not 100%
the vanguard example i made was a DXI, well i only tried the demo. so i don't know that much about it, and wether they have a VSTI version or not, if they have got a VSTI version then i would of though that both versions would be the same, instead of only making this feature for the DXI version. because that would mean a total redesign of the GUI.
But like i said i'm really not sure, this may only be a feature of DXI plugins.
i hope it's not though.
cheers 😉
exonerate ·
also isn't there a new feature in the new VST 3 spec that allows the user to resize plugins, like any other window?
so surely if the user can now do it, then we can also.
cheers 😉
infuzion ·
oddson wrote: Does the VST spec support this?
Well, it at least the sub-windows (displays, sliders, knobs, etc) could resize it would be cool.
McBarGig ·
Yeah but how?
This is what I have and I'm stumped at... Area 2 Float to get the area dimensions... Then I adjust these values larger or smaller Then I g back into a Float to Area with the new values... Now what, where does the output from the Float 2 Area output go?
Thanks..
nix ·
I think VST2 support resizable window in host. Reaktor have it, maybe VST3 though?
Nu Audio Science ·
Nope resizable windows has been supported since vst was invented
NAS
infuzion ·
Nu Audio Science wrote: Nope resizable windows has been supported since vst was invented
I think I've seen 1 or 2 before, but I can't remember. Can anyone point to a few resizable VSTs please?
Nu Audio Science ·
OK 1 Vanguard 2 XT 1 +2 3 V Sampler 4 Usine 5 Luxonix Ravity
There are a bunch more but i'm sure that is enough for examples sake
NAS
jobro ·
Reaktor does this frequently.
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