Is there an extensive overview on which XML attributes are required as a minimum?

I was tinkering with the XML files of a HISE project a bit and figured out, there's a lot of attributes that can be omitted to keep a very minified object tree file.

But, it is not as simple as I guessed… I thought I would just discard every attribute-value pair which is only setting a default value on a parameter. But if I delete all occurrences of

Gain="1.0"

every instrument is turned down to give no output. That's a bit contradicting as every instrument you'd add via HISE UI will be set to full output level by default.

But, never mind! I just explored the beauty of organizing a whole project by just 3 XML files – which makes it easy to create plug-ins on machines I don't run HISE on.

What I found out works very well if you're up to work on a minified project XML file:

Sample maps can be embedded (though I know it's a bad practice, I never had any issues related to it but it helps having all components in one file)

A Bypass="0" can be omitted most of the times, provided your instruments functions are not based on bypassing some modules in exchange

All occurrences of .0" could be replaced by " in my tests.

Alright, I've tested it and there was in fact a typo in the code that caused the buffer glitch sound. I've fixed it so now it should sound at least as good as the default one :)

There are two reasons why it would throw this error:

It can't find the files with the images from HISE that it needs to embed (the default filmstrip knobs etc). If you have set the HISE path, this shouldn't be the case It can't create the directory in your Binaries folder where it copies these images. Might be a file permission problem.

@d-healey Thank you for taking the time for the post - at least I know I'm not crazy. (Well, about that, at least.) 🤪

@ulrik Hi Thank you - I downloaded Develop again today, and recompiled. Analyser is fine, cheers. However, ScriptNode seems to somehow be worse now—no matter what I do on the ScriptNode screen, nothing happens—I can't start something new, and when I try load one, nothing happens. Also still getting a crash when I click on a draggable filter thing…that is a unique case, because there are two instances of the same editor open—when only one is open, it doesn't crash.

@Christoph-Hart Were you able to load up this test project? Crash on your end?
https://hub.korneffaudio.com/index.php/s/MBtPXHXXtZYcLZW

It's Still broken! :/

@ustk yeah it has to resolve two things (the object t and the function getIntValue) vs. one (only the object, the math function is resolved at compile time.

But this performance difference is neglible - in UI contexts there are much slower things and if you are using anything string related in an audio processing context you have to sit back and evaluate life decisions that lead you into this situation of misery anyway.

Also Math.round still returns a float number IIRC while getIntValue makes sure that the var instance uses the integer data slot internally.

@Natan yes that is fixed. You don't have to do anything on your end - if a macro modulation source changes a parameter that is automated during its render callback, it will skip the DAW notification call that gets written in the undo history.

Oh I need to check Linux but on Windows and macOS they are more similar - on Windows the non bold font is much more readable and I needed a new font just like you need to paint the walls in your living room after some years…

I have added a preprocessor along with the font update that keeps Oxygen so you can revert it without too much hassle.

@oskarsh ah yeah, that's the fourth option :)

@ustk Maybe... I can't say I've noticed.

@d-healey yes, that slipped through the CI test suite :)

Oh, I Nevermind, I found a solution here https://forum.hise.audio/topic/4464/macro-modulation-issue-need-help?_=1678493112347

@Christoph-Hart I've looked further into the Server component and it seems like HISE always adds a trailing slash at the end of the route. So

Server.callWithPOST('localhost:4000/test', p, function(status, reponse){});

actually calls the /test/ route and not the /test one which ends up in a 404.

Is there a trick to not add a trailing slash in hise?

@DabDab You need to add a label to your UI that has saveInPreset enabled. And for each preset you create you set the text of the label to the same as the preset name.

presetTest.zip

@ustk said in Add processor before FIRST module doesn't work:

@Lindon Oh yes it is a filter... 🙃
@d-healey right click on any module to insert one above

yeah filters ALWAYS live first in the FX order....