I want to build a template project in C++ for my other projects in VS. For the purpose I copied most preferences from the “again” example. To test whether the template works I copied all the source/header files as well as the references, just to be sure. Finally I debugged the project and it ran without errors.
Setup:
However, the created .vst3 won’t show up in the DAW (Reaper), probably crashing on scan. Is there any explanation for why this could be happening? (Note that I removed the original again.vst3 from the scan directory).
I also have a secondary issue, in Reaper when the “Open UIDescription editor” option is selected on one of the example projects, the program crashes.
Regarding Reaper - the crash on Open UI Description Editor is a known problem; I asked about it on their Forum last year:
I’ve looked at it and it happens in vst3editor.cpp involving the popup menu. The crash is on the line in VST3Editor::onMouseDown( ), which is line 913 for VSTGUI4.3: