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Virtual Studio Technology (VST) for .NET. Plugins and Host applications.
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Functionality of ShellCreate / Support for Waves Shell Plugins #26

Closed verystack closed 3 years ago

verystack commented 4 years ago

Is PluginContext.ShellCreate() to use Waves-style shell plugins? How is it meant to be instantiated?

If not, what is it used for?

obiwanjacobi commented 4 years ago

Not familiar with 'Waves' but if I remember correctly (last worked on this 7 years ago) it allows a single plugin dll to contain multiple plugins (to the Host/DAW). It works in conjunction with (on the main/root plugin loaded first) GetNextPlugin() and I think there was also a Flag a 'shell plugin' has to set in order for the Host to know to call the GetNextPlugin().

The ShellCreate is called on the main/root PluginContext after the GetNextPlugin call was issued - I think. It is only implemented for unmanaged plugins and as far as I know I never really tested this through. So disclaimer ;-)

obiwanjacobi commented 3 years ago

Closing - discussion seems to be done.