Add ActiveXComponent into Win VST Plugin

Audio Plugins
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Has anyone ever tried to implement an ActiveXComponent into Win VST Plugin? Such as adding QuickTime or FlashPlayer activeX component into juce VST plugin?

I am doing this research right now. Neither QT activeX and FlashPlayer activeX component will display, they actually wasn’t created at all. Is there anything missing?

Appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks.

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I wouldn’t really recommend this - hosts can be a bit funny about what goes on in their windows. But having said that, I’d be interested to know what’s not working, if you manage to debug it.

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The flashPlayerComponent is really similar to juce_QuickTimeMovieComponent, except specific funtions provided by FlDbg9.ocx.

I copied the EditorCompWrapper from “juce_VstWrapper.cpp” to make a wrapper for the flashPlayerComponent. Instead of choosing file name by adding a file browser, I did dirty and quick way by just hard coding the file path.

In “juce_VSTWrapper::dispatcher”, I replaced the deleteEditor() and createEditor() with the flashcomponentwrapper and call playFlash() right after the object is created.

Object was created successfully. The problem is in flashPlayerComponet::createControlIfNeeded(), “Component::isShowing()” always returns 0, as while the parentComponent_ == 0, getPeer() failed.

If I removed if (isShowing() && ! isControlCreated()) from
createControlifNeeded, in ActiveXControlComponent::createControl(const void* constrolIID), line Component* const peer = getPeer(); failed.

If ActiveXComponent is not a good way to implement existing activeXcontrol into a VST plugin, is there any other way it would work? The problem basically is how to embed a activeX control into Juce dialog as in dll.

Thank you very much!

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Test 2

After I posted the first result, I did another test by calling playFlash() on juce_VstWrapper::dispatcher at
if( opCode == effEditGetRect)

It gives the system enough time to create the window and its components.

This time, it moved forward to ActiveXControlComponent::createControl(const void* controlIID)
Succeed in getPeer, failed at OleCreate(), error message is “Class not registered”

I registered all classes I need and it still gives me the same error.

It is exciting it at least moves forward a bit. Can anyone give me some suggestions on this error?

Thank you for your help.

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update

Looks like there is no one every tested this. I just updated what I’ve done lately.

I did notice at QuickTimeMovieComponent::createControlIfNeeded(), calling ActiveXControlComponent::createControl(), The Rect for IOleObject::DoVerb is a 0 point. The parent window does have rect area. I haven’t figured out why.

After maually change the Rect, the quicktime component is supposed to play movie. Finally, I get the helpless error dialog saying “Quicktime doesn’t support the display setting, restart your application and try again”. That is about how far it goes now.

The problem I have now is that I was unable to change the audio plugin window size. Looking forward to any solution about this problem.

Thanks.

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Update. It works now.

Finally, I found the problem call quicktime component directly won’t give it the correnct rectangle to display, it only plays sound.

So I added it into the big component wrapper with other editor. Now it works. It play the sound and the movie. Rectangle size may need be re-adjusted. But it works.

I took back what I said about activeX won’t work with dll. It just needs extra work.

Thanks.

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