From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,441ab6d6abb8b3af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-16 06:00:12 PST Reply-To: "aleistad" From: "aleistad" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3f88cb3d$1@news.broadpark.no> <3onkov8fslkkj992a1osekfr1n06qt3265@4ax.com> <3f8ab254$1@news.broadpark.no> <3f8c1fe7$1@news.broadpark.no> <3f8c2261$1@news.broadpark.no> <3f8db6d8$1@news.broadpark.no> Subject: Re: Ada and MidiShare Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:54:56 +0200 Organization: The universe X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com Message-ID: <3f8e9707$1@news.broadpark.no> X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1066309383 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com (16 Oct 2003 15:03:03 +0200) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!news.broadpark.no Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:974 Date: 2003-10-16T14:54:56+02:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnboskv6.ot.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.n o... [snip] > As far as I know Gwindows doesn't work on other platforms than windows > or has this changed lately? > > Preben That's right, Windows only. But it holds great promise when it comes to integrating with various Windows services. It can use ActiveX and DirectX which I take (in my ignorance) to mean that MIDI is not too hard to implement. It is with slight astonishment I have to conclude that no MIDI support has ever figured in Ada. The lack of complete/serviceable/standard multimedia facilities must surely be a contributing factor to the diminishing popularity of the language... Im' not giving up just yet, though; If anyone feels like adding the basic MIDI byte I/O capability, I will happily contribute with an Ada support library for higher level operations. Are --