also ask Craig Latta, he uses a Mac and has his MIDI ports working.


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:35 PM, John M McIntosh
<johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
>
> ===========================================================================
> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd.  http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
> ===========================================================================
>
>
>
>



-- 
Brad Fuller
www.bradfuller.com