Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

this notes a patch for 10.5sdk
http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/media_api/2009-January/000703.html

Also found a section on OSX here:
http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/cratel_pyportmidi

Also, have you tried the .c test programs that come with portmidi?

cheers,


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I got pygame building on mac with portmidi now - although I can't seem to
> get the midi.py example to do anything.
>
>  the xcode proj for portmidi seems to have the porttime sources incorporated
> into it, rather than built as a separate lib, so the porttime dependency
> doesn't exist, which was causing trouble. Also the static libportmidi.a lib
> requires linkage to the CoreMidi framework, which was also causing trouble.
>
> So I decided to kill 2 birds with one stoney-hack and made PORTTIME
> dependency be a dependency on porttime.
>
> But now when I install the pygame on a machine with a midi keyboard
> attached, and run examples/midi.py with either --output or --list, it waits
> a long time, then prints "in stat: : No such file or directory" 4 times.
>
> looking at portmidi's sources, that error seems to com from it trying to
> read the "/PortMidi/PM_RECOMMENDED_INPUT_DEVICE" setting from some prefs
> file "com.apple.java.util.prefs.plist" as part of it's initialization.
>
> It seems really bizarre and rather dumb to me that portmidi would use java
> for anything, and I'm starting to wonder if the thing even works on
> Leopard...
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:49 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think with portmidi, compiling it ourselves on mac is the way to go.
>>  Seemed easy to compile on win/linux... so hopefully it compiles ok on
>> mac too.
>>
>
>