JUCE 4 to JUCE 5 having strange issues with standalone plugin

[daniel]

As a reference have also a look in this thread:

Styling the Standalone plugin window?

There are two approaches here that you could do: you use the standalone app that JUCE already provides for you. Then you don’t need any macros etc. This is the approach that JUCE’s audio plugin demo uses. If you want different behaviour in your standalone app (compared to your plug-in), you can use: PluginHostType::getPluginLoadedAs() == AudioProcessor::wrapperType_Standalone For example, you could use this in a parentHierarchyChanged callback in your plug-ins editor to change the window st…