Hi,
I have made successfully managed to embed a QML window into a Carbon window. I
would like to share my solution and discuss it further with any interested in
the subject.
First I get the Carbon window ref and get the content HIView. The content view
tells me the size of the Carbon window given by the host. I then create a
HICocoaView and add it as child of content view. I also set the cocoa view
frame to be the same as content frame. I terminate returning a new QWindow.
QWindow* Editor::fromWindowRef(void *ptr)
{
HIRect frame;
HIViewRef content;
WindowRef w= (WindowRef) ptr;
HIViewFindByID(HIViewGetRoot(w), kHIViewWindowContentID, &content);
HIViewGetFrame(content, &frame);
HICocoaViewCreate(0, 0, &hiCocoaView);
HIViewSetFrame(hiCocoaView, &frame);
HIViewAddSubview(content, hiCocoaView);
return new QWindow;
}
After the QWindow is created I get it’s winId and pass it to the next function
which casts the WId to a NSView and sets it into cocoa wrapper view:
void IVstEditor::wrapIntoHostWindow(WId id)
{
HICocoaViewSetView(hiCocoaView, (NSView*)id);
}
Now the QML window is inside the carbon window and the GUI is responding to
interaction! :)
From my testings, it was not possible to have a window open by trying to create
an NSWindow and initialise it with the carbon window ref. It would never show
up. Also, trying to initialise QWindow with a pointer to NSWindow content
NSView would always crash. However, if queried, the HIView returned has visible
and with the correct frame size.
Nuno Santos
Founder / CEO / CTO
www.imaginando.pt
+351 91 621 69 62
> On 16 Sep 2015, at 20:06, Nuno Santos <nunosan...@imaginando.pt> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After spending the whole day around Carbon and HIToolbox I’m now sure that
> the WindowRef provided is a for a Carbon window. However I’m not been able to
> add a single colored NSView to the windows provided by the host. This what I
> have been trying to do. Is there anyone with experience in Carbon here? Can
> you see something terribly wrong? The window appears completely white, always!
>
> WindowRef w= (WindowRef) ptr;
>
> NSView *view = [[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 100, 100)];
> [view setWantsLayer:YES];
> view.layer.backgroundColor = [[NSColor yellowColor] CGColor];
> NSLog(@"view frame - %f %f %f %f", view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y,
> view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height);
>
> HIViewRef content;
> HIViewFindByID(HIViewGetRoot(w), kHIViewWindowContentID, &content);
>
> HIRect frame;
> HIViewGetFrame(content, &frame);
> NSLog(@"content frame - %f %f %f %f", frame.origin.x, frame.origin.y,
> frame.size.width, frame.size.height);
>
> HIViewRef hiCocoaView;
> HICocoaViewCreate(view, 0, &hiCocoaView);
> frame.origin.x=0;
> frame.origin.y=0;
> frame.size.width=640;
> frame.size.height=480;
> HIViewSetFrame(hiCocoaView, &frame);
> HIViewGetFrame(hiCocoaView, &frame);
> NSLog(@"cocoa view frame - %f %f %f %f", frame.origin.x, frame.origin.y,
> frame.size.width, frame.size.height);
>
> HICocoaViewSetView(hiCocoaView, view);
>
> HIViewSetVisible(hiCocoaView, true);
> HIViewSetNeedsDisplay(hiCocoaView, true);
>
> HIViewAddSubview(content, hiCocoaView);
> HIViewSetNeedsDisplay(content, true);
> HIViewSetVisible(content, true);
>
> 2015-09-16 18:19:30.387 Live[93099:1193953] view frame - 0.000000 0.000000
> 100.000000 100.000000
> 2015-09-16 18:19:30.387 Live[93099:1193953] content frame - 0.000000
> 16.000000 1024.000000 768.000000
> 2015-09-16 18:19:30.387 Live[93099:1193953] cocoa view frame - 0.000000
> 0.000000 640.000000 480.000000
>
> Nuno Santos
> Founder / CEO / CTO
> www.imaginando.pt <http://www.imaginando.pt/>
> +351 91 621 69 62
>
>> On 16 Sep 2015, at 14:36, Nuno Santos <nunosan...@imaginando.pt
>> <mailto:nunosan...@imaginando.pt>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I’m developing a plugin to be loaded by a music software host (VST). There
>> are some lighter alternatives to provide graphics, network and other kinds
>> of useful resources but I want to use Qt. I simply Love Qt!
>>
>> When the plugin is open by the host, it provides a window ref to the plugin.
>> On Window it is a HWND handle, on Mac it is supposedly a WindowRef.
>>
>> I have a working prototype for Windows. I don’t think it is all correct but
>> its working. When the plugin is first started I check for the existence of a
>> QApplication and start one if not.
>>
>> Then I create the main controller for my plugin and the QQuickView to draw
>> on the window. To create the QQuickView i’m first creating a QWindow with
>> the ptr to HWND handle as parent:
>>
>> window = QWindow::fromWinId((WId)ptr);
>>
>> view = new QQuickView(window);
>> view->setSource(QUrl("qrc:/qml/vstmain.qml"));
>> view->rootContext()->setContextProperty("controller", _controller);
>> view->show();
>>
>> This is actually working quite well on Windows. The same strategy however,
>> doesn’t work on a Mac. When I try to create a QWindow::fromWinId the result
>> is a crash with the following stack trace:
>>
>> 2015-09-16 14:26:18.526 Live[91339:1091079] -[NSHIObject
>> setPostsFrameChangedNotifications:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
>> 0x19806da0
>>
>> - The first question is: what is QWindow::fromWinId is expecting to be able
>> to create a window? An NSView?
>>
>> - The second question is: the stack trace says that NSHIObject didn’t
>> recognized the selector setPostsFrameChangedNotifications. What is a
>> NSHIObject? I can only find references to HIObject from the HIToolbox and
>> that belongs to the Carbon frame work. So far I haven’t been able to call
>> Carbon methods inside my Qt environment even referencing -framework Carbon
>>
>> - Third question: On window I have an issue with the QApplication args and
>> argv. On debug, there is an ASSERT that says that origArgc is different from
>> the actual argc/argv. On release mode it crashes. Why does QApplication
>> needs to receive the exact same arguments as the initial app?
>>
>> - Fourth question: how should I keep my run loop running without depending
>> on the host? On Windows I have created a windows thread to call
>> qApp->exec(). Although a warning that exec should be called on main thread
>> it WORKS! How safe is this? Is there any other recommended option? What
>> about Mac OS X?
>>
>> I have been google a lot specially about the NSHIObject and I can’t find an
>> answer, not even a simple lead. The closest I have is vstgui, a GUI
>> framework for VST plugins that has open source code and support for Carbon
>> and Cocoa backends but the NSHIObject is intriguing me because I can’t find
>> any explicit reference on how to deal with it.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be high appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> With my best regards,
>>
>> Nuno
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