There is no single UI framework in VST. The plugin API only has interfaces for creating/destroying/resizing a GUI window. You are not required to use VSTGUI.
There is no single UI framework in VST. The plugin API only has interfaces for creating/destroying/resizing a GUI window. You are not required to use VSTGUI.
For context, the variation in UI between VSTs is pretty large and tend to be very creative, much like UI in games.
For better or worse, frequently worse
Like traveling back in time before UX was a word
Correct, it just hands you native handles. What you do with them is up to you.
JUCE is a popular UI framework (at least it was 10 years ago). But I've seen people put electron apps somehow into a VST.
Oh man, this is really starting to look like a plague.
And yet here we are discussing the value of using C++ vs other languages for real time audio processing.