Use `ResizableWindow` component to implement layout

[ohcibi]

JUCE in fact provides tooling to make resizable windows. This would avoid such thing as settings not visible/reachable entirely and on a different layer even. But more importantly, it would make a resizable window, which to be frank is an abslute NoGo for any Plugin with a gui that contains more than one knob.

Mind that zooming is NOT resizing, but even if it was, it should be done using JUCE functions (there is no reason to complicate the build process with a dependency when it is not used, so alternatively dont use Juce).

If resizing doesnt work in VST, time to ditch VST. Somebody needs t be the first one to stop supporting VST anyway. Should have happened long time ago.

[Andreya-Autumn]

Hello!

We all know Juce makes resizable windows, and the difference between resize and zoom.

If I'm understanding you right, this is a feature request for free resizing (rather than fixed percentages)? If so, yeah indeed you can do that with Juce. The reason Stochas doesn't do that is not that Juce or VST (as far as I know) forbid it, it's just no one has done the work of typing in that code yet! If you're a dev and want to do that, feel free!

[Andreya-Autumn]

The way I did this in lattices was to host every child component in a single parent, and have the latter be the only component owned by the editor directly. That makes it easy to implement the constrainers to maintain the right proportions etc.

Stochas has lots of components though, so it's a fair chunk of work. One possible issue is backwards compatibility also. But it all seems doable as far as I can tell. It's gonna get done when someone feels like doing it. Like everything else in these open contribution projects. :)

[baconpaul]

ResizableWindow is also not the in parent window hierarchy of a plugin.

I think what op wants is to turn in the drag to resize corner in the AudioProcessorEditor and then have stochas do flow sizing, which is indeed a chunk of work

[Andreya-Autumn]

Yeah indeed. Which if I'm understanding you right is what the aforementioned one-parent strategy would do.

It's a lot of components to move, but one of us will do it one day I'm sure.

[baconpaul]

Yeah you can probably keep everything else fixed and admit edges and just grow the note area or some such