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Custom Skins for End Users?

#1

Hello Cabbage Community! I’m still relatively new to Cabbage and Csound. But I am having a lot of fun learning! :slightly_smiling_face:

However I have been curious. Is there a way to create a plugin that the End User can customize/skin? So far it appears to me that the SVG files get embedded. But I’d like it if I could supply the End User with a “skins” folder where they could edit the SVGs themselves if desired.

Plugins like Serum, Sektor, Surge, Camel Crusher, Dune, and Rapid does this for example.

Thank you for any help :blush:

#2

Yes, this is absolutely possible @Kzz uses customised skinning in his plugins. All you need to do is update the images/colours when a user changes skin. FWIW, if I was to do this, I would try to fit as much as I can in background images so as to minimise the number of assets that need updating.

#3

Thanks for your reply!

Where do the SVG files go after exporting? (I thought they was embedded into the plugin, but I may be wrong.)

Basically I want the SVG files to be similar to the CSD file after exporting, so the End User can open them and edit them if they like.

#4

The SVG files can go wherever you like. On mac people normally put them into the plugin bundle, but on Windows they have to go into a system folder. You could create your own folder in a User’s home directory, and then use the USER_HOME_DIRECTORY reserved channel to find the path to the home folder.

#5

Okay last night I was messing around and was able to get it working by exporting my VST Plugin. And then editing the CSD file to search for the image files in a custom dictionary beside the plugin.

(Probably not the most efficient way but it worked! :sweat_smile:)

I will go checkout the USER_HOME_DIRECTORY reserved channel in the manual to see how to set that up because that’ll be much easier.

Thank you very much for the help! :blush: