Plugin Developer

Developing a slick and polished gui for your VST plugin is less about graphics and more about creating a smooth customer experience. The default behavior of IPlug is to block mouse input when an ICaptionControl has edit focus (that’s the object you use to allow someone to type values into your parameters). If I have clicked on a value to type in it and decide to tweak a knob instead, then I don’t want to have to click back in the edit field and hit enter before being able to turn that other knob. I want to directly click on that other knob and have the edit field just go away. Here is an IPlug mod that will allow your VST plugin interface to work this way.
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