Hi Christian,
Thank you for the response.
Yes i tried setting Mix and Max to the same value, which always resulted in
the control not displaying at all on the generic view.
I also tried using |=, and i have just tried setting
kAudioUnitParameterFlag_HasCFNameString and
kAudioUnitParameterFlag_ValuesHaveStrings.
Still nothing.

Apparently Apple just "broke" this option for us in the latest MainStage
and Logic.
I also checked various audio units, that come with Logic Pro, and none of
them had a button on their generic view.


2015-01-19 18:50 GMT+02:00 Christian Rober <[email protected]>:

> These are just a few shots in the dark:
>
> 1.  Have you tried setting the max value to the same thing as the min
> and the default?  I only suggest this because of Mr. Stewart's
> comment, in the linked post, about state-less parameters (i.e.
> booleans with write-only flag) being perceived by the generic view as
> a button.  Maybe the host checks the min vs. the max and when it sees
> a difference between the two it decides the user needs a state-ful
> control.
>
> 2.  Have you tried different combinations of
> kAudioUnitParameterFlag_HasCFNameString and
> kAudioUnitParameterFlag_ValuesHaveStrings?  Maybe the view is trying
> to create a button, but is expecting one or both of those flags to be
> set.  Since it doesn't see them, it might just create an empty button,
> or skip creating a button altogether.  You may be clobbering those
> string flags when you set it to writable.  You may just need to set
> the writable flag using " |= " instead of " = ".
>
> --Christian
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello
> > I had asked this already, but apparently the message got lost.
> > Anyways, sorry if you're reading this a second time.
> >
> > I have created an Audio unit with an accompanying Cocoa view.
> >
> > An ordinary audio unit, that we can add to a Logic or MainStage project,
> > mainly consists of two parts - an Audio Unit Kernel and an Audio Unit
> View,
> > and they are designed to be separate things and "communicate" by changing
> > parameters.
> >
> > The Audio Unit view can be presented by the host (by Logic Pro X, for
> > example) either as a nicely drawn cocoa view
> > (http://rghost.net/60432973/image.png), which is an NSView from a xib,
> > loaded from the AudioUnit's bundle, or you can select in a drop-down menu
> > the "Controls" option (http://rghost.net/60432978/image.png) and get an
> > ascetic dynamically generated view (http://rghost.net/60432987/image.png
> ).
> > This dynamically generated view (or "Generic" view) is generated by the
> host
> > application, based on what your audio unit's function returns in its
> > AudioUnitParameterInfo parameter:
> >
> > OSStatus GetParameterInfo(AudioUnitScope inScope, AudioUnitParameterID
> > inParameterID, AudioUnitParameterInfo &outParameterInfo)
> >
> > So if you return the following, you'll get a checkbox with the title "Hey
> > there":
> >
> >                     AUBase::FillInParameterName (outParameterInfo,
> > CFSTR("Hey there"), false);
> >
> >                     outParameterInfo.unit =
> kAudioUnitParameterUnit_Boolean;
> >
> >                     outParameterInfo.minValue = 0;
> >
> >                     outParameterInfo.maxValue = 1;
> >
> >                     outParameterInfo.defaultValue = 0;
> >
> >                     outParameterInfo.flags =
> > kAudioUnitParameterFlag_IsWritable | kAudioUnitParameterFlag_IsReadable;
> >
> >
> > This was the introduction.
> > Now back to the question.
> >
> > I would like to have a Push Button on my autogenerated by the host
> "Generic
> > View".
> > And I can't figure out how to do this.
> >
> > My research showed that this used to be possible by declaring a write
> only
> > boolean parameter in GetParameterInfo. Here's some links that prove this:
> >
> > http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2005/Jun/msg00023.html
> > http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2005/May/msg00280.html
> > http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2005/Jul/msg00032.html
> >
> > The problem is that when I declare a write only boolean param, no control
> > appears in the Generic view of Logic Pro X or Mainstage 3.
> > If I declare a read only boolean param, all I see is a disabled control
> with
> > "< off >"  text on it.
> > If i declare a read-write boolean param, I am getting a check box (the
> last
> > is the correct behavior)
> >
> > Apart from the kAudioUnitParameterUnit_Boolean, I have tried other types
> > (kAudioUnitParameterUnit_Indexed, kAudioUnitParameterUnit_Generic), tried
> > setting the "kAudioUnitParameterFlag_IsWritable" and
> > "kAudioUnitParameterFlag_IsReadable" together and separately. To no
> avail -
> > I can't manage to get a button on the generic view.
> >
> > So how to get a regular push button on generic view?
> >
> >
> >
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