Squeak MIDI and Mac Serial Ports
Ivan Brusic
ivan at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Nov 25 19:51:53 UTC 1998
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mark Guzdial wrote:
> Does anyone know how to make Squeak let go of a Mac serial port after it
> uses it (say, for a MIDI interface)? On my G3 Powerbook, I have one lone
> serial port. After using it for MIDI-ing, I wanted to backup my PalmPilot,
> but it insisted that Squeak still had the serial port -- despite moving
> back to internal synthesizer, and despite quitting Squeak. I could backup
> after restart.
>
> It's not a huge deal (I don't backup that often :-), but if there's an easy
> solution (a Mac-centric thingie? A Squeak expression to evaluate?), I'd
> appreciate it.
I do not know about serial ports, but Squeak does not relinguish control
of my sound card after playing sounds in Morphic. The only "fix" I have
found is to interrupt the current process using CMD-. Works most of the
time.
Hope this helps and Happy Thanksgiving to all,
Ivan
--
"Computers are nothing but a perfect illusion of order" - Iggy Pop
Ivan Brusic
Graduate Student
GVU Center & College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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