Jari Williamsson annonce une restructuration de ses plug-ins Le sujet est résolu

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Il ne vous aura pas échappé que Jari Williamsson, qui nous bombardait de mises à jour de ses plug-ins (JW) à une cadence parfois effrénée, est resté fort calme ces dernières semaines. Il s'en explique dans sa newsletter : il est en train de réaliser une restructuration majeure de l'entièreté de ses plug-ins. Mais il n'en dit pas plus sur ce travail, qui intervient avant la sortie d'une nouvelle version de Finale (à une date non encore connue).

"I'm in the middle of some major restructuring work right now (related to all my plug-ins)"

Sur sa page Facebook, il y a quelques jours, il signalait par ailleurs qu'il avait appliqué une technique de compilation pour réduire significativement la taille de ses plug-ins sous Windows.

"I have now upgraded my Windows compiler to a muuuuch more current version than the one I've used in the past. Now, I'll gradually turn on size reduction optimization for the Windows plug-ins, which I didn't dare to turn on in the past.
My early tests show that the Windows plug-ins will be approximately 55% of the earlier file sizes. So, when you download plug-in updates in the future, don't be alarmed if the file sizes are drastically smaller than previous versions."

Concernant le Mac :
" I've now completed the first step of my Cocoa porting of my PDK Framework on the Mac.
As I said earlier, OSX 10.7 will be required to run the plug-ins for Cocoa, but it will also mean lots of new possibilities. Now, the plug-ins can use the user interface potential of modern Macs (there are muuuuch more interesting controls that can be used in Cocoa compared to the old Carbon), instead of me having to work around pre-OSX technology.
Bugs in the Finale PDK related to plug-in windows and dialogs can be "fixed", since I now have the UI code.
Keyboard support for Cocoa is a huge difference to the old Carbon controls - plug-in windows can easily be designed with keyboard shortcuts etc, making it much easier to control the plug-in windows with macros.
If you have any thoughts about general things that could be improved in the plug-in windows for my plug-ins on the Mac side, let me know. It's much more likely that I can fix such things now than in the past."