Better GUI resizing

[Youlean]

Hey Guys, this is simple preview of my implementation of resizing. It will add few changes to IGraphics.cpp and you will be good to go. If your plugin uses just bitmaps it will work without modifying any existing code...

For now it is in the works...

[random_id]

Wow, this looks great. I can't wait to take a look at the code.

[Youlean]

Originally Posted by random_id

Wow, this looks great. I can't wait to take a look at the code.

Thanks! I will post the code here as soon as I implement some things.

It will be better to explain better how this will work..

So first of all, you are seeing bitmap background and bitmap knob. As you can see resizing works perfectly and it doesn't show graphical glitches when moving knob.

My goal with this new resizing method is to enable bitmap and vector resizing, and to make it as simple as possible.

The basic idea is to include high resolution images in your plugin binary, then to load that images, resize it, store in new created memory and release old high resolution bitmap so that you don't waste RAM. In that way we could have plugin that uses only bitmaps and that have really nice graphics on all sizes. Also, in this way we don't waste any CPU cycles as rescalling is happening only once at control construction.

[Youlean]

Here the update... It mostly works, but it needs some update to handle auto resizing at plugin load. Now gui doesn't flicker. Controls now never gets deleted!

[Youlean]

New update! Now plugins are aware if gui size was changed at some plugin instance and shows message to reopen plugin interface (for now the look of it is just for demonstrating functionality). Also, now plugins are storing plugin size to settings file(more on that later), and they get correct size at load or gui open.

[Youlean]

New update! Added some new features, fixes many bugs (mainly vst2 cocoa resizing). I hope that I will release code until end of this week, so stay tuned..

[Tired_Joe]

Thanks a lot. I am very interested in your improvement

[Youlean]

Code is now released. Look it here: http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=176037

[FelixMagi]

Originally Posted by Youlean

Here the update... It mostly works, but it needs some update to handle auto resizing at plugin load. Now gui doesn't flicker. Controls now never gets deleted!

How do you solve flicker problem?

I want to make my code without using your classes because I only need it for one situation.

[SaschArt]

Originally Posted by FelixMagi

How do you solve flicker problem?

I want to make my code without using your classes because I only need it for one situation.

At IGraphicsWin.cpp you have to modify IGraphicsWin::Resize(), on the last line add UpdateWindow(mPlugWnd); will draw without waiting for the next tick of the clock.

Pay attention to the mac version, the window breaks, I still haven't managed to solve the problem.