23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
6:59 p.m.
On 06/23/2015 06:46 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
i still think that a simple standard defined message
for a plugin to
tell its host the following:
"-- i've made some changes onto my own internal state, including
some, if not all of (my) parameters (aka. input control ports), so
please scrap all your current view state of me from this moment on and
get it all re-freshened up, will you? btw. you can also opt to set
your session dirty flag, as for saving my (partial new) state later on."
Please don't.
Plugin ports are only valid during run, which means the plugin can only
send such message during run.
If you have a host like ardour or carla that splits the processing into
smaller blocks this will get very ugly.
Sending some dirty flag to the host is fine. Attempting to change some
input port value is not.
This is simple.
If you have some internal data that the plugin needs to modify during
run - don't export that data to the host.