JIT and LookAndFeel

[anon78806976]

Hi
I’m new to using the (licensed) Projucer in OSX and I was trying to see what can be done with JIT today. Basically I’d be happy if I could use it to see immediately the LookAndFeel of a plugin but I must be doing something stupid because it’s not working for me. Everything seems to compile without errors but when I press on the green play buttons next to the component names nothing happens. Anybody can guess what I’m doing wrong?

PS. As a side note, is there anybody selling or sharing neat LookAndFeel buttons, waveforms, toggles and sliders out there?

Thanks!

[JUCEMARLER]

Are you trying to JIT compile your AudioProcessorEditor class with different look and feels or doing this for individual components ?

Keep in mind that your component classes (including your AudioProcessorEditor) need to be default construct-able for the JIT process to work with them.

So you cannot for example compile AudioProcessorEditor(AudioProcessor& myProcessor) in the Projucer live coding engine.

The same goes for any Component classes which do not have default constructors. i.e.

MyComponentClass::MyComponentClass(); OK

MyComponentClass::MyComponentClass(Widget& w); NOT OK

Checkout the Projucer demo projects from the JUCE summit (specifically AudioDemo) on Josh’s github profile.

Edit: Not referring to myself in the 3rd person here. I mean Josh Gerrard who actually works at ROLI!

OMGtechy/JUCE_SummitExamples

Josh

[willrice]

@Jules on instantiating individual components in the Projucer w/ LookAndFeel:

Default LookAndFeel in ProJucer project

If you put your look+feel setup in your normal app or window constructor, then the projucer will never run that code - remember that it just instantiates the component that you open, it doesn’t call main().

A more foolproof way to do it would be to use something like a SharedResourcePointer which creates your custom look, and then make your individual components reference that. Then when the projucer uses a component which uses this shared object, it’ll get created and used.

See the following threads on the topic:

Default LookAndFeel in Projucer project
SharedResourcePointer to LookAndFeel

I would really love to see an official demo of the most elegant solution to this problem.