Making Tauri useable as GUI for VST plugins

[Boscop]

It would be great if Tauri could be used for making GUIs for VST plugins (at least on Windows).

1. This requires being able to create the WebView2 window as a child window on the parent window whose handle the VST host passes in:

2. It also requires not taking control of the event loop but yielding control back to the host every frame:
   In Editor::idle(), the VST would call run_return (instead of calling run once and relinquishing control) and the host calls Editor::idle() every frame.

Links to (outdated) prior art:
https://github.com/vanderlokken/rust-vst-gui (uses IE's engine, so no Wasm, windows-only)
https://github.com/Boscop/winit (very outdated winit fork)
https://github.com/Boscop/glutin (even more outdated glutin fork, from before winit existed)
https://github.com/monomadic/dd-core (prototype for mac, also outdated)
(I think there was also a crate that did this for linux, but I don't remember the name.)

Currently there is no working & up-to-date cross-platform solution to create GUIs for VST plugins.
Tauri seems to be the most promising option :)

[toovy]

@Boscop did you look further into the VST plugin compatibility? I would also be interested in the other way around, not really knowing where to start.

[ricardomatias]

Is there any sample/example out there for using Tauri as VST GUI?

[stellanhaglund]

Also interested!

[Vestibule]

Interested in this!

[AZProductions]

Is there any sample/example out there for using Tauri as VST GUI?

https://github.com/maxjvh/nih-plug-webview uses a fork of wry to build vst3 plugins with nih-plug

[Timtam]

I'll still have to test nih-plug-webview, but I want to follow here as having the entire Tauri stack at our disposal, including all plugins that already exist, would be amazing! Hope someone gets to do it at some point. Really looking forward to it.

[poucet]

What's the status of this? It's marked as closed but I don't see any resolution. I'd love to pick this up.

[Mixomo]

Any update? 👀

[poucet]

I just got it to work with wry: https://github.com/poucet/simply-vst/