Hi Jules,
I saw in the forum that improvements had been made on the timeless problem of shortcut keystrokes with TextEditors on plugins, so I update my Juce library that was one year old.
I tested all plugin formats (excepted VST3) on all DAW I had and here are my results:
Mac (10.9):
VST (Cubase/Live) OK
VST (Reaper) Spacebar key not caught by the text editor.
AU (Logic/Live) OK
AU (Reaper) Spacebar key not caught by the text editor.
RTAS (PT 10) OK
AAX (PT 10/11) OK
The spacebar problem was not present in the last version of the Juce Library I had (from August 2013).
PC (Windows 7):
VST (Reaper/Cubase/Live) OK
AAX (PT 10/11) OK
RTAS (PT 10) Enter and escape keys not caught by the plugin.
For the RTAS problem, here is a fix I wrote in the RTASWrapper.cpp to send the key code to the focused component.
#if JUCE_WINDOWS Boolean HandleKeystroke(EventRecord *theEvent) { JUCE_NAMESPACE::Component* const modalComponent = JUCE_NAMESPACE::Component::getCurrentlyModalComponent(); if (modalComponent != nullptr) { switch(theEvent->message) { case 9229: // return key case 13315: // numeric pad return key modalComponent->getCurrentlyFocusedComponent()->keyPressed(KeyPress(KeyPress::returnKey)); break; case 13595: // escape key modalComponent->getCurrentlyFocusedComponent()->keyPressed(KeyPress(KeyPress::escapeKey)); break; default: break; } return true; } else return false; }; #endif
What do you think of it?
Any idea about why space bars are not caught anymore on Reaper?