Captain's Log: Stardate 78099.9

Things are going good with the Windows pre-alpha release. The installer works properly now, and the new distinction between "factory" and "user" presets (you can't overwrite the factory ones) works well. There's a bunch of tiny small new features like an About menu. The docs for the changelog, known issues, and 3D controls are all done. And I fixed a bunch of small bugs that I introduced recently; for example the VST plugin was crashing hard at startup, since I hadn't tested it in a couple weeks.

MacOS is next, and it's in decent shape but there are more issues there. Some weird things have cropped up, like weird visual corruption when the file chooser menu is launched (no other dialog menus do it). And when it runs as an AU plugin in Ableton on MacOS, switching to the plugin GUI and back to Ableton leaves the system main menu bar in a weird state. I think have have leads on what to do about both of those, but I also suspect a couple more things will come up. On the plus side, vcpkg did just magically work on Mac, so at least I didn't have to wrangle the new libraries. Actually it worked so well that I think I'm going to lean on it more heavily, and move some of what I currently have as git submodules to vcpkg dependencies.

But also, I need to create the MacOS installer. Sadly I don't think I can release as a .dmg file, which would be much easier, because I need to put VST3 and AU files in their correct system locations (which a .dmg can't do). So I need to learn about the MacOS package building tools. Doesn't seem too bad, but it's just another thing to get done.