Thank you - in the meantime i tried compiling it via the console, which did also start the validator. It failed at [Scan Parameters]:
[Scan Parameters]
Info: ===Scan Parameters ====================================
Info: This component exports 9 parameter(s)
Info: Parameter 000 (id=0): [title="InMode"] [unit=""] [type = D, default = 0.000000, unit = 0]
Info: Parameter 000 (id=0) is kIsReadOnly, no need to be kIsWrapAround too!
EXEC : error : Parameter 001 (id=0): ID already used by idx=000!!! [D:\programme\VST3Dev\Split_times\Split_Times\build\
Split_Times.vcxproj]
[XXXXXXX Failed]
Parameter 000 (inMode) uses the ID 102 (assuming that the IDs in [plugName]cids.h are what’s referred to), as it did in the tutorial. For the other parameters, I just incremented the ID - so Parameter 001 (which presumably is the second parameter) uses the ID 103, the next uses 104 and so on. Is the field of numbers usable for IDs there limited or where would the issue here be?
ETA: this is what the parameter enum (made pretty much the way the tutorial does) looks like:
enum STParams : Steinberg::Vst::ParamID
{
kInModeId = 102,
kOutModeId = 103,
kLTimeId = 104,
kRTimeId = 105,
kLRandomId = 106,
kRRandomId = 107,
kLFineId = 108,
kRFineId = 109,
kFillModeId = 110,
};
Update:
It didn’t compile/got the wrong ID because I didn’t add a kCanAutomate flag for some of the parameters. Fixed that, now it does show up in the VST Test Host (which crashes when trying to test it. lol). Seems to run okay in FL Studio so far. Gonna flag this as the solution.