[squeak-dev] Creating/using MIDI ports with external device, how to start?

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri May 30 03:35:56 UTC 2008


On May 29, 2008, at 7:00 PM, John Richards wrote:

>
> Agreed...that's why I've been trying to create a new one.  For what  
> it's worth.  I can't output on the existing port either since it  
> seems bound to the internal Mac sound generator.  Oh well.
>
> I'm on the verge of deciding this is impossible (is it really true  
> that no one has made this work?).  If so I'll try to build a  
> primitive to access the portMidi open source code.  I would REALLY  
> like to avoid this path but no one seems to know how to do this  
> seemingly simple thing.
>
> John

You might look at the macintosh C code in

http://squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/Mac%20OS/plugins/MIDIPlugin/sqMacMIDI.c?rev=1708&view=auto


I think MIDI ports are tied to devices, if the device doesn't exist  
you can't create out of air...


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