@David-Healey Great info. Thanks!

It looks a lot like UVI Falcon

@Christoph-Hart Great, thanks.

Where do I get a copy of the current licence? I was never sent one when I started paying.

@dannytaurus said in No-argument sort() is a no-op on strings - bug?:

So you think the docs are wrong, rather than it being a bug?

Could be either

@David-Healey Done 👍

ABSOLUTE RULES now has a MINIMAL CODE COMMENTS entry. It says to comment only what is non-obvious, contradictory, or missing from self-documenting code, to keep needed comments to one line, and to point at the forum topic or GitHub issue/PR for more context. Comments & Documentation under Code Style carries the detail with three examples. The FL Studio comment from PR 1040 and the instrument-plugin note beside the confusingly named macro in PR 1039 are listed as good comments. The multi-line host-echo paragraphs from PR 1037 are listed as too much, with the one-line-plus-reference guidance. It also bans comments that restate code, narrate control flow, mark edits, or leave investigation notes behind.

@ustk Yeah, good idea. I asked Claude if the version reports as an invalid number, or just as 0.0.0.

The AU plist has AudioComponents.version = 0. Pluginval decoded that as v0.0.0. JUCE’s decoder explicitly formats the packed integer 0 as 0.0.0.

0.0.0 is valid as a semantic version, but AU metadata uses a packed UInt32, not a SemVer string.

In practice, hosts treat raw value 0 as “version unset.” Logic therefore labels it invalid, while pluginval merely displays the decoded value.

For 0.0.30, the AU field should contain integer 30. The bundle’s separate CFBundleVersion can remain the string 0.0.30.

@dannytaurus agreed about Claude, has become unusable in my opinion, deep dives and minutes of ruminations for simple questions, eats tokens like crazy.

I use cursor for everything now.

@Lindon

Sorry yes my typo...

Glad you weren't being charged 5% 😂

PRs for fixes here:

#1024 Make the "Default" font honour the requested size and measure consistently

#1025 Fix out-of-bounds read in the string width table for non-ASCII characters

@dannytaurus Interesting, looks like they are also phasing out Intel support when they eventually limit the minimum deployment to 27.0 - probably a few years yet.

I'll just stick with my existing build system for now until it no longer works.

@David-Healey Yours always seems to be more generally useful than mine though 😂

This one is pretty niche but I'll likely be using single column preset browsers in most of my plugins, so it's really useful for me.

@Orvillain said in Why I'm not making a Windows installer (nor code-signing):

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. More details would be lovely! Private message if you need to :-)

https://forum.hise.audio/topic/14949/why-i-m-not-making-a-windows-installer-nor-code-signing/13?_=1785506496174

Update: Claude-generated gist here of the suggested patch: https://gist.github.com/weavermedia/3fc4a419920fcda8de389a89d7aec68d

@Christoph-Hart I've merged the new commit and it no longer crashes, just shows some ugly errors. Is this intended as a stop-gap solution? Because isDefined() still returns true for the none-existent function.

Edit: Oh I see, it just stops the execution at the "error"

Tried your suggestion and appears to be working here, maybe a preprocessor definition (default true) to protect older buggy projects?

I found when unloading a Full Instrument Expansion the automation xml was getting wiped. Made a little PR to fix it.

@David-Healey Makes sense 👍

@Christoph-Hart Looks like you deliberately chose to not expose the preset list to host. Can you remember why?

"Here be dragons" maybe? 😂

# hi_frontend/frontend/FrontEndProcessor.h int getNumPrograms() override { return 1;// presets.getNumChildren() + 1; } const String getProgramName(int /*index*/) override { return "Default"; } int getCurrentProgram() override { return 0; //return currentlyLoadedProgram; }

Not gonna lie I‘ve made this exact mistake about three times in my life already without help from a robot…