How to get list of available plugins from DAW in a plugin-host plugin?

Audio Plugins
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I’m working on a plugin host that will also be a plugin. In the standalone version, I have successfully implemented a PluginListComponent, in a window, a KnownPLuginList, ApplicationProperties file etc. and it basically works like the JUCE AudioPluginHost.

My question is: for the plugin version, it would seem that you don’t handle any of this yourself, but instead would get a list of available plugins from the DAW that is hosting your plugin host. What is the way to do that? I can’t really seem to dig up an example…

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There is no such facility in the plugin APIs, you do have to have your own plugin management for your plugin that is a host.

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So are you saying that my plugin-host plugin needs to essentially have my own PluginList Window, and the ability to scan for available plugins, inside a host that has its own list of available plugins, which may be different from my list?

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Yes, that’s what you will have to do. The Juce plugin hosting is completely separate.

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OK - seemed illogical, seemed my plugin host should be working with the same list of plugins that the DAW has decided are available, but if that’s the case, can do!

Thanks!

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For the plugin APIs to support such a thing their designers would need some foresight. As a general rule in computing nothing was designed with foresight.

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