When developing I'll very often rename older version of my plugs to, say rhino.dll_ - I don't want the old version to be picked up by a vst host
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- KVRAF
- 3388 posts since 29 May, 2001 from New York, NY
Why do some hosts insist on loading files in the vst folder, that end with something else than the .dll extension ?
When developing I'll very often rename older version of my plugs to, say rhino.dll_ - I don't want the old version to be picked up by a vst host
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When developing I'll very often rename older version of my plugs to, say rhino.dll_ - I don't want the old version to be picked up by a vst host
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- KVRist
- 236 posts since 11 Jun, 2004 from Belarus <----> Florida
Name it Rhino.d11 then. Looks the same, so the user can understand. And the host probably wont pick it up? Maybe hosts read the every file even with bad extension?
Looks the same, so the user can understand. And the host probably wont pick it up? Maybe hosts read the every file even with bad extension?
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
My guess it it looks at the file header and loads in anyway, and doens't depend on the file extention.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35434 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Yeah, I noticed that in Bidule... renamed rhino.dll to rhino.dllx and it still found it.
Renamed it to rhino.dll.old, and it didnt though...
Renamed it to rhino.dll.old, and it didnt though...
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- KVRAF
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- 3388 posts since 29 May, 2001 from New York, NY
I really hope they don't scan all files blindly. This really wouldn't make sense, and use up an awful lot of time...
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