Digital Performer no key focus

Audio Plugins
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Hi,

Anyone figured a solution regarding the keyboard focus issue with DP, even the simple spacebar tranport control is not working. All other hosts seem fine such as logic, live, reaper,cubase.

Cheers

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A solution ?

3

This is an old post - may have been fixed since then…

4

Key presses work fine in DP7 when using a Cocoa interface, but not when using a Carbon one. Unfortunately, if you support both interfaces - which you no doubt do if you are using the JUCE framework - DP7 currently favours the crusty old Carbon UI over the Cocoa one. There is no way to tell DP to use Cocoa over Carbon. I did make MOTU support aware of this, so perhaps a future update will use the more modern UI over the legacy one, but who knows? Assuming DP will eventually go 64-bit, they will be forced to switch to Cocoa.

My work-around was to add a configuration option so that users of our plug-ins could disable the Carbon UI completely, which forces DP7 to use the Cocoa interface. An absolute honker of a kludge, I will admit, but I couldn’t think of a better solution other than waiting for MOTU to update their host. (As an aside, UI resizing also works fine in DP7 with the Cocoa UI, but not the Carbon one.)

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It’s not such a bad kludge, really - the old hosts that only support Carbon UIs must be getting near the end of their lifespan by now, I hope!

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I’ve been asked to elaborate on how I programmatically disabled the Carbon AU Interface. It’s very straight-forward: in juce_AU_Wrapper.mm, you’ll need to amend GetNumCustomUIComponents to return 0 instead of 1. In my case I do this programatically, returning 1 in most cases, and 0 if Carbon AU interfaces have been disabled by a configuration file setting.

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Good tip thanks !

I asked Jules about adding Digital Performer in getHostType()
Once this is implemented, I would edit juce_AU_Wrapper.mm and add this just under #include “…/juce_PluginHostType.h”

static PluginHostType& getHostType() { static PluginHostType hostType; return hostType; }
then modify GetNumCustomUIComponents() like this :

[code] int GetNumCustomUIComponents() {
bool useCarbonUI;

            if (getHostType().isDigitalPerformer())
            {
                useCarbonUI = false  ;                    
            }
            else 
            {
                useCarbonUI = true;
            }
return       useCarbonUI; 
}[/code]

Works great here after adding DP in getHostType())

Salvator

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Thanks! Keep it simple though…

int GetNumCustomUIComponents() { return PluginHostType().isDigitalPerformer() ? 0 : 1; }

…would work just as well!