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 10:41:58 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> <3f8df170$1@news.broadpark.no> Subject: Re: Ada and MidiShare Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:36:32 +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: <3f8ed901$1@news.broadpark.no> X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1066326273 233.80-202-161.nextgentel.com (16 Oct 2003 19:44:33 +0200) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!nntp.gblx.net!news.broadpark.no Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1002 Date: 2003-10-16T19:36:32+02:00 List-Id: "Pascal Obry" wrote in message news:u3cdt2jri.fsf@wanadoo.fr... > FMOD does support MIDI but only on Windows I think, check it out: > http://www.fmod.org/ > > Pascal. Looks like a nice library, but no Ada bindings (Incidentally, Python has bindings to FMOD(!)). ATM I'm looking at the possibility of using Win32Ada to build a minimal MIDI/audio I/O library. If that fails I will try to use C/gcc and the winmm library, then make bindings for Ada. This route looks like it should be doable with a minimun of work, although my lack of both Windows and Ada experience will probably lead me through a fairly long path to get there. I will report on my findings to this group. BTW: is there any reason to not use Win32Ada in this day and age (the GNAT one)? It looks like development was stopped many years ago. The more I look around, the more I think that what Ada needs is a very minimal binding to the (Win,Mac,Linux) host platforms MIDI and audio I/O, leaving out all the huge (C/C++) libraries. Then this minimal I/O library can be used to build a "native standard" Ada MIDI/audio library "the way it's meant to be" (tm) . Portaudio, SDL, FMOD and their siblings are surely nice libraries, but in this case (minimal I/O) they are overkill. Are --