Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, good point.

I've used pyrex to generate a pypm.c file, and included that along
with the pypm.pyx file.  This way pygame doesn't need pyrex as a
dependency.

Might as well use the existing python binding for portmidi.  There's a
few patches floating around the net... so hopefully I can find them
and pull them into the pygame version... and then they can hopefully
flow back into the pyportmidi version.

I've emailed the author of pyportmidi to ask him if it's ok to include
it in pygame too.  It should be under the python license (I think),
but I emailed him just to make sure.

pygame.midi in svn now, and seems to build ok, and run with the latest
svn.  I still have a bit of work to do on it... including docs,
finishing an output class, tests etc.  Also, only tested on windows so
far.  Still need to make sure it compiles, and works on Mac and linux.


cheers,



On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Toni Alatalo <antont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> René Dudfield kirjoitti:
>>
>> going to try and use pyportmidi, but decided against it.  since
>> pyportmidi is written in pyrex, whereas pygame uses C modules.  Also
>>
>
> i don't understand the reasoning there, as Pyrex is just a way to write C.
> i.e. something written in Pyrex is a C module.
>
> otherwise: interesting stuff, thanks for info!
>
> ~Toni
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That looks good. test.exe works for me too, except when it is killed
>>> prematurely. It still quits, but gives me an error message as well.
>>> Anyway,
>>> I will look at adding portmidi to the Windows dependency build process. I
>>> just need to make sure it is optional.
>>>
>>> Lenard
>>>
>>> René Dudfield wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> cool, I'll try out the midi tests some more on the weekend.  test.exe
>>>> with option 6 seems to work for me.
>>>>
>>>> yeah, I've used pyportmidi :)  I think a few things need to be redone
>>>> though, but maybe I should just use that, and send them patches (or
>>>> point them to the pygame svn).
>>>>
>>>> I've already got code to convert midi events into pygame events...
>>>> which is useful if you want to handle midi events in the same way as
>>>> keyboard/mouse/joystick events.  Also did some code to run the midi
>>>> stuff as a background thread, which I think will make it easier for
>>>> people - so they don't need to manage the midi streams themselves.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lenard Lindstrom
>>> <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>