is there a way to hide a slider in less-gui plugin

Virtual instruments Virtual Effects and Add-ons
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hey all
i develope a plugin that has no gui
what actually i need is to save my own data in the project
but i think this is not possible
so what i intend to do is declare this data as parameters so it will be saved
but this make a new problem
since the plugin has no gui
the host will show all the paramteres as sliders/buttons

so i need a way (if there is) to tell the host
which parameter is visible and which is not

thanks in advanced

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Its a while since I wrote a VST, but i think its possible to save anything you choose in a project from a VST. Check the VST SDK.

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i checked
and also made a post for this
got only one wrong answer so far

maybe you didn’t understand
there is a data that does saved in the project
this data is the plugin parameters
other than that, i didn’t see anything

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Perhaps you just need to make a simple window (example: Just has the text “VST_USER VST”) to stop the VST being interpreted as a windowless GUI ? Because you have no window, the host system is probably creating its own window and adding controls based on the parameters you have stored.

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yes the host creates the gui for me.
and i thought there is a way to tell the host to hide on of the sliders/buttons it creates for me

anyway, after two days with no answer
i think the answer is NO.
what i’ve asked is NOT possible.
so if i need to save extra data i need
to declare this data as plugin parameters.
and if i want to hide one of the parameter sliders, i need to write a GUI plugin.

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i found the answer on other forum.
the solution is to use get/setChunk