My plugin UI background is 2% bigger when I "reopen" the plugin... will visibilityChanged() help?

[Ian-SAfc]

I thought I’d post an update for others who may suffer from the same issue in the future.
I tested my plugin in Ableton and it worked fine. This seems like a Reaper bug (the DAW I normally use).

I had to put a flag in visibilityChanged() to trigger a setSize in my timercallback(). And then it resized at the appropriate moment when it was reopened.

This post was helpful:

VST3 resizing issue in Reaper

@ed95 Here is a video that describes the VST3 plugin size problem. The plugin always scales up and fills the window. This does not happen with the VST2 version. https://tal-software.com/downloads/Screen Recording 2021-02-13 at 09.27.22.mov This works if i implement the resizing manually without setResizable(true, true); or with the timer solution. In this case the VST3 host probably don’t know that the plugin is resizable and it does not scale up. The work around with the timer and maybe also…