Is it currently possible to drag and drop VST plugins from an external application (eg. file explorer) into Reaper with exactly the same result as dragging them from the internal plugin browser? Naive attempts yield "Could not import 1 of 1 items" error.
The plugin in question would be already scanned and registered within Reaper, doesn't need to import a new one. Although that would be great too.
If this cannot be done right now by dragging the actual DLL files, could it be done by pushing a list of names/ids/file paths via the drag and drop which would be handled by a script? Last resort would be sending such list via clipboard - but that lacks the drag and drop intuitiveness... I could code any middleman script myself, I just want to know if it's possible at all first before sinking hours into something futile.
You see, I would like to code my own plugin organizer. Not much point doing that if it cannot be used to actually insert plugins into Reaper though.
Feel free to be technical - for example, if you know anything about the drag and drop dataobject format Reaper would recognize as its own, that would work just fine.
You have
reaper.TrackFX_AddByName( track, fxname, recFX, instantiate )
you can read the current Plugins
path = reaper.GetResourcePath()
path/reaper-jsfx.ini
path/reaper-vstplugins64.ini
path/reaper-dxplugins64.ini
path/reaper-vstplugins.ini
Drag&Drop VST plugin from external application?
Linear Mode
