I’m working on a plugin that requires the ability to drag and drop wav/midi files directly into the host application. I am overriding the “MouseDrag()” function and using “performExternalDragDropOfFiles()” to move a list of selected files to the host. Although it appears to work well in almost every DAW, there are a few that cause issues when I attempt to drag after saving and reopening that session.
In Studio One 4, I will start a new session, load my plugin, and drag files successfully, then I will save that session, close all songs, reopen the saved session, and when I attempt to drag it creates a dmp file and pops up a message that an unexpected error has occurred. Upon inspecting the dmp file, the exception says “The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access.”. When I traced the error in my code I found that it came down to the line:
bool dragWasSuccessful = dragContainer->performExternalDragDropOfFiles(str, false);
What am I doing wrong? Or have I just stumbled onto a bug in JUCE? If there is any example code that someone could provide or any suggestions of how this can be improved I would greatly appreciate that! The function seems to work with many DAWs but has crashed in both Studio One 4 and Ableton. Thanks in advance!
Tried the new commit today with no success. I did some tracing and discovered that the thread in the DragAndDropJob struct is not executed which seems consistent with the exception displayed in the dmp file. I have been able to produce the bug in Reaper as well. It seems that in any DAW, if I choose the option to “close all projects” or “close all songs”, it closes any open projects, then opens a new session which is where the crash occurs. If I close the DAW completely and reopen it then I can open my plugin and drag files with no problems.
I just tried the same drag operation in a JUCE demo project and the same error occurred (tested in Reaper). I can now confirm that this is a bug in JUCE so I would like to know what can be done to correct this. I am fielding several customer complaints a day pertaining to this issue in my plugin and so far have no solution to provide. I will start looking at implementing a drag drop feature on my own instead of using the JUCE provided functions but I hope that a solution is being developed because drag-n-drop is a core feature of my plugin.
