I found this sentence in the document of IProgramListData.
A component can either support program list data via this interface or unit preset data (IUnitData), but not both!
If I understand correctly, IProgramListData and IUnitData are respectively used for saving/loading a specific program state and a specific unit state by a host application instead of saving/loading the whole IComponent state of the plugin by IComponent::get/setState().
I wonder why supporting both IProgramListData and IUnitData by a plugin is prohibited.
Because I suppose that ordinary plugins can support both classes and work correctly.
Would anyone like to tell me why supporting both IProgramListData and IUnitData is prohibited?
I see.
However, I suppose that Steinberg::Vst::PresetFile class also may need to be updated if a plugin can implement these 2 interfaces.
It seems that PresetFile class doesn’t have APIs to distinguish whether the stored data of ChunkType::kProgramData is from IUnitData or IProgramListData.
So if I read a .vstpreset file with PresetFile class that the file contains unit data or program list data of a plugin which implements these 2 interfaces, I can’t determine which interfaces, IUnitData or IProgramListData, should restore the preset data.