[ddots-l] WaveArts Registration Issue
- From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:39:00 -0500
Mike and others,
See? Contacting companies does sometimes bring results!
I wrote Wave Arts a nice letter, and got a reply back from someone
named Bill within the hour.
ere is what he said, with some editing by me. It sounds like he's
willing to add a shortcut keystroke to start the registration process.
From Bill:
I can understand your frustration. You are correct that the plug-in
interface is entirely bitmapped. I have reluctantly accepted that
the only way to sell
audio plug-ins is to make them look fabulous, and that means fully
customized bitmapped interfaces. Because the interface is bitmapped
your screen reading
software will not be able to find the Tools button which opens the
menu of options needed to register the plug-in. This menu is
implemented using standard
Windows objects, so if you happen to click on it and open the menu
the software should be able to read the menu and the dialogs that
are opened from the
menu. Unfortunately there is not a keyboard command to open these
options, but there should be.
We may be able to register the plugs through the registry if you
are comfortable using regedit. The machine ID is unique to Wave
Arts, it is a 5 digit decimal
number derived from the MAC address of your ethernet hardware. If
you open a Windows command prompt and type "ipconfig/all" it will
list the MAC address
of your ethernet adapter under the heading "physical address". The
MAC address is displayed as six two-digit hexadecimal numbers
separated with dashes.
From the MAC address we can compute the machine ID and prepare the
registry modifications
needed to register the plugs. I think there is a way to automate
this, for example a file to click on that will insert entries into
the registry, but I'm
not sure.
Another possibility is that we fix our software to allow the
register dialog to be opened via a keyboard command. That might
actually be the best solution,
but it will have to wait until next week. We will figure this out.
Have a great holiday,
Bill
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