The physical device and midi/usb interface are present and working 
(verified by other software on the system which sees them).  So my problem 
seems to be not knowing how to bind them to a new midi port so it can be 
used by Squeak.

John



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Re: [SqueakAudio] [squeak-dev] Creating/using MIDI ports with   external 
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Quoting John Richards <ajtr at us.ibm.com>:

> I'm trying to open a midi port to receive incoming midi commands and am
> completely stuck (after a week of trying everything I can think of). 
I've
> confirmed that the MIDIPlugin is loaded.  I've tried on both Windows XP
> and MacOS.  The only port I have available is this:
>
> MIDI Ports:
>         0: QuickTime MIDI (out)
>
>
> John

Hi John,

I am not an expert in this area, but I did get MIDI-in working on Windows. 
I
think you'll need a physical MIDI input device, e.g. if you can borrow a 
USB
(piano) keyboard, or something like a MIDISport box. Squeak just sees what 
the
system sees. I don't believe you'll be able to automagically conjure up a 
port.

If you evaluate SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported, you should get true on 
Windows,
and false on OSX and Linux. So you'll only be able to do MIDI-in on 
Windows, for
the moment.

Craig Latta was planning to port to these OSs- see this thread:
http://www.nabble.com/MIDI-support-td13476203.html#a15745241

Craig, any news?

Cheers,    ...Stan



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