focus issues for VST2 in Ableton Live, Bitwig and other hosts

[vcvrackideas]

Hi, finally I can get it working! Cardinal Parameter is gorgeous, thank you! VST2 has no issues with template.vcv so far so it runs.
Some issues if you will:

1. Sometimes when changing focus between DAW, explorer and the plugin itself it loses focus in module browser search field. I can't even type any symbols, every time they are different then I was intented to type and all in CAPS LOCK somehow.
2. More annoying issue than the previous one - any action with windows explorer like save, open, literally anything causes Live's crash. It seems like you said before more porting to windows issues that the plugin itself

Cheers!
EDIT: hotkeys also don't work...
EDIT2: When closing Ableton's project with 5 instances of Cardinal it hangs Ableton and got "doesn't respong" message from windows when trying close it. Seems something with RAM but I don't sure :-)

[falkTX]

1. Sometimes when changing focus between DAW, explorer and the plugin itself it loses focus in module browser search field. I can't even type any symbols, every time they are different then I was intented to type and all in CAPS LOCK somehow.

Very interesting, this is something that is a pain to get right, but should be doable to find something that works.
Something to do in DPF side and VST2 event handling.
I will have to do some tests in Windows to ensure it works correctly.

2. More annoying issue than the previous one - any action with windows explorer like save, open, literally anything causes Live's crash. It seems like you said before more porting to windows issues that the plugin itself

I have an idea of what causes this, this will also be something to fix on DPF side.
Try to avoid such dialogs for now.

Also, using multiple instances is probably not very safe at the moment, specially if using MIDI.
Keep it in 1 instance for now, I am yet to rewrite some core parts to be more multi-instance/thread-safe.

[vcvrackideas]

Thank you! By the way I've noticed that multi instance workflow nicely parallel processing at least in Ableton. Same instance copied to another track only increase 2% of consumption versus 9% of the first one, very cool. Already done some music with it, workflow is unbealiveably nice.

[falkTX]

Issue #2 should be resolved now, testing appreciated.
The other one is much harder, I will need to create simple test audio/vst plugins to verify the behaviour, something for later.

[plyfrm]

Can confirm I am also experiencing #1, running cardinal in FL Studio 20 on windows 7 (both with aero on and off, probably not related but decided to test it anyway to rule it out since I remember older versions of rack having some weird behaviours with that).

The module browser is very hard to use since as soon as it's exited once the search box stops taking keyboard input at all no matter what you do, meaning you have to scroll through everything to find what you're looking for

Hopefully that can be fixed at some point, I have no idea how prevalent that bug is for other users. Thanks for all your work on this!

[JustMog]

i've found it's still possible to input to the search bar, but only with rclick->paste or the numpad.
then you can also move the cursor and delete characters.
not much use of course, but may help diagnose?

[falkTX]

this should be fixed on latest builds, confirmation would be greatly appreciated.

[JustMog]

no change for me

[plyfrm]

The behaviour is slightly different but it's still broken, the search box doesn't take any input even on first focus now