Mark P. McCahill wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
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>> Is anyone interested in improving the multimedia facilities in Squeak?
>>
>
> Hi Brad.
>
> I'm interested. Your interests may overlap some of what
> my group has been doing to support Croquet. Last week we
> pushed OpenAL plugins for Mac, Linux, and Windows into
> the update stream for the Jasmine release of Croquet.
> I'm not sure how useful OpenAL is to people outside of the
> Croquet community, but the plugins can be called
> from Squeak, so maybe this qualifies as Squeak multimedia.
>
>
>
Sure it does, and thanks for contributing.
I'm on the Croquet dist-list and I've been reading the progress.

I think OpenAL would be especially useful for games and tools that I am 
developing. AFAIK, though, OpenAL hasn't been meet with a large amount 
of approval (maybe enthusiasm) by the audio development community, but 
that's just my peripheral assessment from lists such as Alsa, 
Linux-audio-user, etc.

Question: will OpenAL support be added to the base 3.x image? If not, 
why not?

I would like to know more about it, and how you have integrated it into 
squeak. I'm going to go thru your threads on Croquet. Can you also give 
us a run down here?

brad