As usual, I started out intending to do as little as possible
to this to get it working and wound up going overboard.
However, I believe it does allow easy management of the effects
and this will provide a basis for the full blown plugin manager
dialog.
As this is a reversal of change committed in 2007 with no real
explanation or history behind that change other than it was
done for Export, we should probably give exporting a bit of a
workout.
Based on Robert's and Steve's suggestions, I removed the "Clear"
button, replaced FileDialog usage with wxFileDialog to restore
extension suffixing, and escaped newlines in save settings so
that chains work properly.
I also attempted to locate the issue where code isn't being
parsed and made a couple of changes, but I doubt I got it.
This brings the builtin, LV2, and VAMP effects inline with the
Audio Units, LADSPA, and VST effects. All effects now share
a common UI.
This gives all effects (though not implemented for all):
User and factory preset capability
Preset import/export capability
Shared or private configuration options
Builtin effects can now be migrated to RTP, depending on algorithm.
LV2 effects now support graphical interfaces if the plugin supplies one.
Nyquist prompt enhanced to provide some features of the Nyquist Workbench.
It may not look like it, but this was a LOT of work, so trust me, there
WILL be problems and everything effect related should be suspect. Keep
a sharp eye (or two) open.
When building for wx3 on Linux, the backported number validators
and formatter conflicts with the wx3 version because I never
renamed them. Crashes during termination would occur because
the wx3 version and our version had different vtables.
I was thinking that we would just be able to delete the
backported version when upgrading to wx3, but since
we've made Audacity specific changes to them we can't
simply start using the real wx3 versions anymore.
Therefore, I needed to rename then to prevent the crashes.
This should allow the new Spectral edit plugins to work on systems that use comma as the decimal separator.
Also removes the *F0* and *F1* definitions that are no longer used (superseded by lowHz and highHz properties).
If you can believe it, this whole big mess is
just to get localized effect labels back into
the menus.
I sure wish I'd had a little bit more time to
finish up all of the effects. It sure would
be a lot cleaner (code wise).
