imjimmi / jive

The ultimate JUCE extension for building GUIs

Stuff I'm working on

JIVE

Author
2021-Present

A bundle of JUCE modules that completely overhaul the frontend development experience using concepts from popular web frontend frameworks like React.

Gramotech

Lead Developer, Designer
2018 - Present

Released four commercial audio plugins amassing over 20,000 active users.

Babylon (2018) - comprehensive multi-band EQ, featured in the February 2019 edition of Sound on Sound.

Pompeii (2018) - multi-band dynamics processor.

GT Analyser (2019) - free spectrum analyser plugin, described as "the most beautiful analyzer I've ever seen" by some guy on reddit.

Contortion-24 (2020) - distortion and saturation plugin, featuring "A WEIRD DEMO" according to some guy on YouTube. He was right tbf.

Focusrite Control 2

Developer, General Nuisance
2023 - Present

Focusrite's revamped control software for the 4th generation Scarlett range of audio interfaces.

Stuff I've worked on previously

Contrast

Author
2020 - 2022

Bundle of audio plugins mostly built using the stock DSP tools provided by JUCE.

I may come back to this in the future, but no immediate plans.

cx605

Developer, Designer
2020

An open-source compressor plugin I started working on but never finished. The idea was to have three different "characters" - Digital, which would aim to keep the signal as clean as possible, Vintage, which would apply saturation, and Look-Ahead, which is self-explainatory.

Vocaster Hub

Developer
2021 - 2022

Control software for Focusrite's new Vocaster range of audio interfaces targetted at Podcasters.

Red Plug-In Suite 2

Lead Developer
2022 - 2023

Migrated Focusrite's most widely used plugin bundle, the Red 2 EQ and Red 3 Compressor, from iPlug over to JUCE to add Apple Silicon support.

University of the West of England

Student
2014 - 2017

Various interesting projects during my time studying Audio and Music Technology at UWE. Most notably a neural-network-enhanced EQ application, NNEQ (top), and Elliptical, a looping audio player with fun visuals (bottom).

JUCE

Listed contributor, regular forum contributor
2017-Present

Proud author of a commit that added an = 0 default argument to a function hardly anyone uses, thus earning myself bragging rights as an official JUCE contributor.

Alliance of Numpties

Co-founder, the good-looking one
1996 - Present

Occasionally dabble in game development with my older little brother and fellow Numpty, @ollij93.

Most recently placing 3rd out of 60 in the Mini Jame Gam 24 with our game, Terry Toastington.

jive's Issues

Using JIVE in AudioProcessorEditor

Hi James,

your example shows an juce::JUCEApplication.

Is there a way to embed JIVE in an juce::AudioProcessorEditor?

Add support for custom & stylable `PopupMenu` items

Add support for alert windows and/or call-out boxes

Add `Slider` type

Slider

Properties

• orientation
• sensitivity
• velocity-mode
• velocity-sensitivity
• velocity-threshold
• velocity-offset
• centre-value
• value
• range
• max
• min
• interval
• snap-to-mouse
• show-popup
• scrollable

Spinner

Knob

Add `Video` type

Add Projucer project for runners

Add `jive_style_sheets` module

Getting started and CMake integration example errors

On the README.md file, the section Integration/CMake should include:

target_compile_definitions(my_juce_project
PRIVATE
    JIVE_GUI_ITEMS_HAVE_STYLE_SHEETS=1
)

Spent 1 hour trying to figure out why the "style" property used on "Getting Started" wouldn't work 😭

Typo on docs/Getting Started.md:

class WindowPresenter
{
public:
    WindowPresenter()
        : view{ views::window() }
    {
    }

    juce::ValueTree preset() <----- It should be "present"
    {
        return view;
    }

private:
    juce::ValueTree view;
};

Update README

Add `TextEditor` type

Add support for stylable tooltips

Add `Text` type

Add `Window` type

Window

Properties

• shadow
• native
• resizable
• Resize limits
• draggable
• fullscreen
• minimised
• name
• title-bar-height
• title-bar-buttons

Add Demo Project

Add `Image` type

Add `ComboBox` type

Combo Box

Properties

• editable
• justification
• text
• font
• tooltip
• selected

Options

• Option
  • text
  • enabled
  • selected
• Header
• Separator

Misc

• Auto-size

Add `Browser` type

github discussions section

could i request a github discussions section so i can ask silly "how can i do this" questions?

`juce::Point` variant converter should round, not cast, for integral types

JIVE/jive_core/values/variant-converters/jive_MiscVariantConverters.cpp

Lines 240 to 243 in 6af097f

	return Point<Arithmetic>{
	static_cast<Arithmetic>(tokens[0].getDoubleValue()),
	static_cast<Arithmetic>(tokens[1].getDoubleValue()),
	};

Style sheet inheritance

I'm trying to apply a custom style to a component tree. Here is a condensed sketch based on my current AudioProcessorEditor implementation:

  juce::String style(
    R"({
      ".footer": {
        "background": "#ff00ff"
      }
    })");

  juce::String xml(
    R"(
      <Component width="550" height="600" padding="10">

        <Component>
         ...
        </Component>

        <Component class="footer">
          ...
        </Component>

      </Component>
    )");

  jive::Interpreter interpreter;

  auto tree = jive::parseXML(xml);
  tree.setProperty("style", style, nullptr);

  auto view = interpreter.interpret(tree);

The JIVE_GUI_ITEMS_HAVE_STYLE_SHEETS flag is set to 1.

According to https://github.com/ImJimmi/JIVE/blob/main/jive_style_sheets/README.md

Style sheets are hereditary, meaning that if a style property isn't explicitly defined for a component, the style sheet will inherit the style from the component's parent instead.

I was expecting the "footer" component to change the background color. However, this is not the case.

In this case, the background color is set successfully, but that's not what I actually want:

  juce::String xml(
    R"(
      <Component class="footer" width="550" height="600" padding="10">

        <Component>
         ...
        </Component>

        <Component>
          ...
        </Component>

      </Component>
    )");

Is there something I am missing?

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error in git clone [email protected]:ImJimmi/JIVE.git and issue with juce::ValueTree get and release?

hey, just trying to get setup following your guides.. ran into an issue when trying to clone the repo

Cloning into 'JIVE'...
The authenticity of host 'github.com (140.82.121.3)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:p2QAMXNIC1TJYWeIOttrVc98/R1BUFWu3/LiyKgUfQM.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,140.82.121.3' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

so i just went ahead and did git clone https://github.com/ImJimmi/JIVE.git which seemed to work fine

not sure if related now but when i follow along your getting started guide for the plugin editor i get an error saying view (the value tree) has no get or release methods?

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