PopupMenu oddity with Cakewalk & Windows VST3

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Hi!

If I try displaying a JUCE pop-up Window in Cakewalk from the Wotja 22 VST3 - there is really weird behaviour where the menu can take seconds to appear.

Furthermore, the menu is unresponsive, and you can see a vertical line from Cakewalk appear on top.

No such issue with Reaper.

Has anybody got any suggestions?

Best wishes to all, Pete

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What sort of window are you using for testing? Is your menu completely custom, or do you see this with standard PopupMenu windows and ComboBoxes?

I just tried out the DSPModulePluginDemo VST3 in CakeWalk 2021.12 and the combo box menus seem to function correctly there.

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Hi @reuk,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Not using any ComboBoxes.

Code like this:

  auto options = juce::PopupMenu::Options();
  mMenu.setLookAndFeel(&juce::LookAndFeel::getDefaultLookAndFeel());
  options.withStandardItemHeight(40).withMinimumWidth(200).withItemThatMustBeVisible(itemIDThatMustBeVisible);

  mMenu.showMenuAsync(options, mPrivateLambda);

The really weird thing is that when this runs, the whole of Cakewalk seems to repaint itself (and the plug-in) several times, every few seconds.

EDIT: again, to clarify: Reaper behaves 100% fine!

Pete

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Is this with the latest version of Cakewalk? Perhaps this was a bug that was fixed in the newest version.

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Hi @reuk - the very latest Cakewalk.

I can’t say that I noticed it before TBH; but then I do most of my Windows testing with Reaper.

Best wishes, Pete

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This shows the weird effect where the Cakewalk UI draws a vertical in on top of the JUCE-based plug-in after having tried to display a PopupMenu…

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Pete

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@reuk just wondering, but do you have JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED defined?

I don’t - but I just saw that in the implementation of the following, and wondered if signficant?

int PopupMenu::showWithOptionalCallback


       #if JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED
        if (userCallback == nullptr && canBeModal)
            return window->runModalLoop();
       #else
        ignoreUnused (canBeModal);
        jassert (! (userCallback == nullptr && canBeModal));
       #endif
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No, I was testing without JUCE_MODAL_LOOPS_PERMITTED too.

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OK, thanks!!

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Hi peteatjuce

Can you send us a version of your plugin that does this?
You can email me at noel at bandlab.com

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Hi @nborthwick !

You can simply download the latest copy of Wotja 22 Free from the Windows App Store!

I’ll mail you separately.

Best wishes, Pete

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Hi Folks,

Just to report that thanks to some great feedback from the team at Cakewalk/Bandlab, I was able to track-down the bug in Wotja that was causing this issue.

Bottom line - I had some unwanted calls to repaint() that were causing too many paints to occur, and that clogged-up the painting process.

Best wishes to all, and many thanks to the Cakewalk team at Bandlab!

Pete

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