[PD-dev] alsa midi device numbers

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On 06/07/2013 06:34 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a bug in my preferences dialog code for midi.
>
> In Pd Vanilla 0.43:
> If I choose Media -> Hardware-Midi it brings up a dialog

what's "Hardware-Midi"?

>
> If I choose Media -> Alsa-Midi it brings up a dialog
>
> If I choose Media -> Hardware-Midi, close the dialog, then choose
> Media -> Alsa-Midi I get insane device numbers in errors to the Pd console:

i don't see this error with Pd-vanilla. how does the "vanilla" property 
box handle device numbers differently than yours?


> couldn't open MIDI input device 2054
> couldn't open MIDI output device 1836017711
> opened 0 MIDI input device(s) and 0 MIDI output device(s).
>
> I suppose to be on the safe side, for both audio and midi I should not assume that devices will be numbered contiguously from 0-n.  Still, these weird device numbers will probably cause errors.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a midi device so I can't test it.
>
if your "hardware MIDI" device is OSS, you can load a loopback driver to 
get a software device.

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