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Old 03-20-2018, 12:21 PM   #1
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Default How would you approach this in WDL-OL?

I'm a newbie to WDL-OL.

I need create a plugin where all instances of it share a separate transparent window (no background fill) that can be resized & overlayed over something else on the screen.

The window should show some elements related only to the currently focussed plugin instance.

Is that possible in WDL-OL? What would be the recommended approach?
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Old 03-20-2018, 04:26 PM   #2
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is this for reaper only? what you are saying is not at all trivial, IPlug does not come with functionality for creating windows etc.
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is this for reaper only? what you are saying is not at all trivial, IPlug does not come with functionality for creating windows etc.
A REAPER-only version would be OK at first for an aplha/beta/V1, but ideally I'd like it to work with other DAWs too after.

I get that it might have some conditionals between windows and mac but that would be OKish.

Initially it needs to work with Mac OS and REAPER. But I'd like to not restrict it so much after.

I thought WDL might have some way of creating/using windows, even a cut-down functionality? It only needs to overlay some basic drawn lines/shapes on the transparent window.

I just need a static reference to the window and the window to know which was the last touched plugin instance so it can read/write parameters to/from it.
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sounds far from basic, plug-ins tend to only work with 1 window.

WDL has swell, which emulates the win32 api on mac. You might be able to use that for your purpose. good luck!
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sounds far from basic, plug-ins tend to only work with 1 window.

WDL has swell, which emulates the win32 api on mac. You might be able to use that for your purpose. good luck!
SWELL sounds good so I'll take a look there. It only needs pretty basic functions, so a wrapper may well do it.

It's a static plugin UI to the active plugin instance. Which makes sense because there is only one video window per DAW to overlay.
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