I don't know of any reason this can't be done. The main alsa api limitation that has stopped me is: Not Worth the Hassle. That, however, is subjective - if you indeed want to attack it I'll be glad to see it (and perhaps even borrow it into vanilla if you're game).
cheers Miller On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:25:26PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > > On Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:39 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig > <zmoel...@iem.at> wrote: > > > On 2016-04-21 06:38, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > >> Why can't alsa midi report "connectable" devices inside Pd, to > >> be displayed in a dropdown? > > > because nobody has implemeted it. > > I'm mainly fishing for any potential alsa api limitations that would make > doing what I want very difficult or impossible. Like "it garbles the device > names", or "crashes every Tuesday", etc. > -Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
