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Currently the standalone application builds on windows, but when loaded the UI for instruments do not load.

The issue turns out to be that on Windows 10, Edge is used, if the feature is enabled, which is necessary to use any modern JS. It seems that unlike web-kit on Mac OS and Gtk-webkit2 on Linux, Edge has some funny behavior with respect to dynamically loading iframes. Many of the current UIs call directly into loaded JS for communicating with the hosting process, using a function called evoke, without indexing via the parent.

In Edge this does not seem to work!

It is unclear to me if this should always work or is just an extended feature of Web-kit. Anyhow the fix for this issue is to use the parent, the main index page that dynamically loads an instruments UI, to communicate with the underlying host. In truth this seems like a more robust abstraction anyway and so moving all UIs to this model seems a valid approach.

I've prototyped this approach with Nuke synth to use this approach and it is now working as expected.

First off, thank you for a great project! I have been meaning to try something similar too. However, I have run into several issues with the build process on Ubuntu (WSL, actually):

Building aa_standalone fails with

   Compiling midir v0.6.2 (https://github.com/bgaster/midir#0bc86b9a)
error[E0308]: mismatched types
   --> /home/xxxxxxxx/.cargo/git/checkouts/midir-eba5c0209c46141b/0bc86b9/src/backend/alsa/mod.rs:654:45
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654 |             Err(ref e) if e.errno() == Some(self::nix::errno::Errno::ENOSPC) => {
    |                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected enum `nix::errno::consts::Errno`, found enum `backend::alsa::nix::errno::Errno`
    |
    = note: perhaps two different versions of crate `nix` are being used?

error[E0308]: mismatched types
   --> /home/xxxxxxxx/.cargo/git/checkouts/midir-eba5c0209c46141b/0bc86b9/src/backend/alsa/mod.rs:658:45
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658 |             Err(ref e) if e.errno() == Some(self::nix::errno::Errno::EAGAIN) => {
    |                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected enum `nix::errno::consts::Errno`, found enum `backend::alsa::nix::errno::Errno`
    |
    = note: perhaps two different versions of crate `nix` are being used?

error: aborting due to 2 previous errors

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0308`.
error: could not compile `midir`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

Since midir (and all other git-dependencies for that matter) are included without a commit and aa_wasmtime is referenced by relative path instead of a repository, these dependencies may have gotten out of sync. As a solution, I would suggest adding a specific revision like so:

[dependencies]
rand = { git = "https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rand.git", rev = "9f35b8e" }

As you probably have a combination that works, it would be great if you could tag the specific revisions that work for you, thanks!