Creating PluginEditor component to select .wav files from a directory

[pbare]

I’m in the process of making a wavetable synthesizer, and I want to implement a combo box that has a list of all the wave files in a directory. I want it to be similar to how Serum does its wavetable select. I’m having a hard time finding relevant resources, so I was hoping to get some guidance here. Here is my current attempts, which is called in the “createParameters()” function passed to the constructor of the APVTS that I’m using:

std::vector<std::unique_ptrjuce::RangedAudioParameter> params;

juce::StringArray wt_names;
wt_names.clear();

// const std::string WT_DIR { “C:\Users\myName\Documents\Xfer\Serum Presets\Tables\Analog” };

for (const auto& filenameThatWasFound : juce::File(WT_DIR).findChildFiles(2, false, “*.wav”)) {
wt_names.add(filenameThatWasFound.getFileNameWithoutExtension());
}

// Oscillator Select
params.push_back(std::make_uniquejuce::AudioParameterChoice(
“_OSC1”, // Parameter ID
“Oscillator 1”, // Parameter name
wt_names, // List of options
0 // Default list index
));

// instantiate the rest of the parameters

Currently, the plugin immediately crashes. Any guidance would be extremely helpful.

[xenakios]

@pbare

“C:\Users\myName\Documents\Xfer\Serum Presets\Tables\Analog”

The file path doesn’t end up valid on Windows. You need to escape the backslash characters or use a C++ raw string literal, but it’s a bad idea to use that kind of a hardcoded path to begin with. But for testing purposes :

Escaped path:

"C:\\Users\\myName\\Documents\\Xfer\\Serum Presets\\Tables\\Analog"

Or a raw string literal:

R"(C:\Users\myName\Documents\Xfer\Serum Presets\Tables\Analog)"

[pbare]

Sorry, the comment in my code was outdated and WT_DIR is defined properly with double slashes as a private member of the AudioProcessor. To be more specific, here is what pops up when I attempt to build the project:

[pbare]

Here’s another view of the error:

[pbare]

Further update of what’s working and what’s not working. Here’s what I have in my method that I want to read the .wav file, and here’s what works.