Pressing the spacebar Reaper (and possibly other DAWs) starts playback

[d.healey]

This only seems to happen on MacOS. If you open your plugin and press the spacebar, Reaper will start playback - not usually a problem, unless you're trying to edit the name of a preset or do anything on the plugin UI that requires you to type in text and use the spacebar.

[larryseyer]

@d-healey

I have the same issue...

But it's not limited to HISE plugins.

It also happens with Surge.

I think it may be a Reaper issue.

L

[ulrik]

@larryseyer said in Pressing the spacebar Reaper (and possibly other DAWs) starts playback:

@d-healey

I have the same issue...

But it's not limited to HISE plugins.

It also happens with Surge.

I think it may be a Reaper issue.

L

It happens in Logic as well

[d.healey]

Hmmm so it seems like a DAW issue, what can we do about it?

[larryseyer]

@d-healey

It seems to me that if the host is controlling keyboard input and passing it along to the plugin, it would be up to the DAW to not start/stop playback when a text window is opened in the plugin.

At least, that's what makes sense to me.

Thoughts?

[mehmethand]

For Reaper, you can change shortcut behaviour.

1 -For plugins you can send all keyboard input to the plugin ( this is done by FX menu.)

2- You can set the shortcut scope to global, normal and global+text field (this is done by actions - edit shortcut )