Saving large amounts of data to Json?

(Mschack) #1

If I would like to save a large amount of data would it be better to save it as binary somewhere or still use the Json file? If using a binary file is better I would probably need to somehow get the preferred location to save the file (i.e. The documents folder in Windows) Is this information available to my plugin?

Thanks
Mark

(Andrew Belt) #2

Don’t do it for data over ~100KB since autosaves happen between two screen frames. In Rack v1, you’ll be able to use something like

std::string absoluteFilename = APP->patch->acquireAsset("out.wav");
...
APP->patch->releaseAsset(...);

Haven’t designed the entire proposal, but it will allow a “File > Export patch” menu item that collects all assets into a folder.