Hi everybody, I have some trouble with CFileSelector in vstSDK 2.4.

What I want to do :

- Open windows selector
- Select a file
- Return path to the file.
- Display path in my plugins

Here is my code :

   
 //-- File Selector---------------------------------------------------- --
    //---------------------------------------------------------- ---------

    VstFileType waveType ("Wave File", "WAVE", "wav", "wav",  "audio/wav", "audio/x-wav");
    VstFileType types[] = {waveType}; //only One type for now.

    VstFileSelect vstFileSelect;
    memset (&vstFileSelect, 0, sizeof (VstFileSelect));

    vstFileSelect.command     = kVstFileLoad;
    vstFileSelect.type        = kVstFileType;
    strcpy (vstFileSelect.title, "Test for open file selector");
    vstFileSelect.nbFileTypes = 1;
    vstFileSelect.fileTypes   = (VstFileType*)&types;
    vstFileSelect.returnPath  = new char[1024];
    vstFileSelect.initialPath = 0;
   
    selector = new CFileSelector  (ptr);
// I am in SDEditor::open (void *ptr) function
   
    fileSelectorDisplay = new CTextLabel (size, 0, 0,0);
// size is my CRect display
   
    if (selector->run (&vstFileSelect))
    {
       if (fileSelectorDisplay)
          fileSelectorDisplay->setText (vstFileSelect.returnPath);
    }
    else
    {
       if (fileSelectorDisplay)
         fileSelectorDisplay->setText ("OpenFileSelector: canceled!!!!");
    }
    lFrame->addView (fileSelectorDisplay);
    delete selector;
    delete []vstFileSelect.returnPath;
    if (vstFileSelect.initialPath)
       delete []vstFileSelect.initialPath;

When I launch myplugin.dll in Reaper it crash => Reaper_host32.exe stop.

In my header :

  CFileSelector* selector;
   CTextLabel* fileSelectorDisplay;

Do you have any clues ? (or code that working ? )

Thanks a lot, Thomas.[/u]

Have you tried checking with the host to see if it supports opening a file selector? I'm not too familiar with Reaper, but you can check by calling canHostDo(). i.e.

if (canHostDo("openFileSelector")) /*report result to a text file maybe? */

Do you use the bit bridge of reaper? If yes then this might be the problem.

Hi thank you for answer.

I put this in my processReplacing function :

if(canHostDo("openFileSelector"))
{
    monFlux<< "YES"<<endl;
}
else monFlux<< "No"<<endl;

And the answer is No...

Do you have an alternative ? How can I select file in myPlugin ?




Yes I use it, if I set "disable" it say "The following effect plug-in could not be loaded.

What is this setting "bridge" do ?

Thomas.

Are you trying to open the file selector in the audio processing function of your plugin? That's a massively bad idea! There's basically no chance that would ever work.

However, if you already have or will solve that mess...I don't think the VST spec in any way requires the host to implement the file dialog functionality. I bet most plugins just open the dialog on their own, using OS specific API calls directly or via a wrapper in their programming framework.

CFileSelector already takes care of that, the problem must lie somewhere else.

OK, so let's look at the code as presented in the original posting...
    // ...
    selector = new CFileSelector  (ptr);
// I am in SDEditor::open (void *ptr) function
   
    fileSelectorDisplay = new CTextLabel (size, 0, 0,0);
// size is my CRect display
   
    if (selector->run (&vstFileSelect))
    {
       if (fileSelectorDisplay)
          fileSelectorDisplay->setText (vstFileSelect.returnPath);
    }
    else
    {
       if (fileSelectorDisplay)
         fileSelectorDisplay->setText ("OpenFileSelector: canceled!!!!");
    }
    lFrame->addView (fileSelectorDisplay);
    delete selector;
    // ...
There's a massive error in there. The pointer passed to CFileSelector's constructor should be a pointer to the effect, not to the editor's parent window.

So, to keep the OP's coding style,
    selector = new CFileSelector  (effect); should work better.

Which VSTGUI version are you using?
3.6 is incomplete for Windows I seem to remember, and you have back-port the VSTGUI 4.0 stuff for it to work properly. *joy*

Wowowow can I kiss you master genious

it works, thanks a lot every body

Only if you're one of my daughters, and somehow I doubt that
Glad it works.