Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi again, Concerning midi... I've added a close() method to Input and Output, and an abort() method to Output. close() lets any midi messages you have sent through get sent, and abort tries to stop the connection right away. I've made it so that abort is not called on the __dealloc__, only close is. I asked on the port midi mailing list, and apparently Pm_Abort is not used all that much, and isn't implemented on linux alsa. So now people will have to explicitly call abort() if they want it to close right away... otherwise it might wait around to send off the rest of the midi messages in the buffer. Also made it so that after pygame.midi.quit() the class instances remaining raise a MidiException, rather than calling the portmidi die code. cu, On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:18 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: since you mentioned the build page - power company turned off power to my neighborhood for a day, and the mac didn't auto power back on (anybody know if you can set a mac to do that?), while my PC seems to have had some part of it fried. ah, bugger. I hate it when the magic smoke comes out. I wish I could email you some spare parts from two pcs I have that I don't really need any more. my old pc used to die after power outages... unplugging the power cable from the motherboard and plugging it back in seemed to do the trick. Some sort of weird reset thing happened. I found this note about auto start for Macs: the Energy Saver preference pane and check the box for RESTART AUTOMATICALLY AFTER POWER FAILURE ...
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Cool. the build page is back up for windows! I guess that machine has risen from the grave. Now the sysfont tests pass on OSX. The midi tests pass, all except for on python2.4 on windows. I think that 2.4 build still has the debug build of port midi - since the results are dying. Rather than the new prebuilts from here: http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame/prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr71-win32.zip cu, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:12 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: hi again, Concerning midi... I've added a close() method to Input and Output, and an abort() method to Output. close() lets any midi messages you have sent through get sent, and abort tries to stop the connection right away. I've made it so that abort is not called on the __dealloc__, only close is. I asked on the port midi mailing list, and apparently Pm_Abort is not used all that much, and isn't implemented on linux alsa. So now people will have to explicitly call abort() if they want it to close right away... otherwise it might wait around to send off the rest of the midi messages in the buffer. Also made it so that after pygame.midi.quit() the class instances remaining raise a MidiException, rather than calling the portmidi die code. cu, On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:18 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: since you mentioned the build page - power company turned off power to my neighborhood for a day, and the mac didn't auto power back on (anybody know if you can set a mac to do that?), while my PC seems to have had some part of it fried. ah, bugger. I hate it when the magic smoke comes out. I wish I could email you some spare parts from two pcs I have that I don't really need any more. my old pc used to die after power outages... unplugging the power cable from the motherboard and plugging it back in seemed to do the trick. Some sort of weird reset thing happened. I found this note about auto start for Macs: the Energy Saver preference pane and check the box for RESTART AUTOMATICALLY AFTER POWER FAILURE ...
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi, just added the OSX fallback in case fc-list doesn't exist. Hopefully that should pass those tests on the build page, when it comes back up. cu,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
since you mentioned the build page - power company turned off power to my neighborhood for a day, and the mac didn't auto power back on (anybody know if you can set a mac to do that?), while my PC seems to have had some part of it fried. On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:25 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully that should pass those tests on the build page, when it comes back up.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: since you mentioned the build page - power company turned off power to my neighborhood for a day, and the mac didn't auto power back on (anybody know if you can set a mac to do that?), while my PC seems to have had some part of it fried. ah, bugger. I hate it when the magic smoke comes out. I wish I could email you some spare parts from two pcs I have that I don't really need any more. my old pc used to die after power outages... unplugging the power cable from the motherboard and plugging it back in seemed to do the trick. Some sort of weird reset thing happened. I found this note about auto start for Macs: the Energy Saver preference pane and check the box for RESTART AUTOMATICALLY AFTER POWER FAILURE ...
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi René, What happens with pygame.midi.get_count()? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hello again, btw the tests pass on an OSX box without midi now. this seems to print stuff to stderr though... $ python -m pygame.examples.midi --list in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory Can't track down where it's printing from. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com mailto:ren...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net mailto:le...@telus.net wrote: This is amazing. Everything is up to rev 2263. How many unit tests were disabled to get all the builds to pass? Lenard hi, just the midi, and the test_get_fonts + test_match_fonts sys font tests. I've enabled them again... The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page squeezed some recent builds out. cu,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, What happens with pygame.midi.get_count()? Lenard You mean on OSX? I'll check it out for you when I can... my girl friend is finishing off her paper this weekend... so I can't use it again this weekend. On my ubuntu laptop it does: import pygame.midi pygame.midi.init() pygame.midi.get_count() 2 ps. I got a default font list from an OSX machine... so I'll add them like how you've added the xp default fonts to sysfont - when the fc-list executable isn't found. pps. Seems The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page (TSAAPBP) has stopped updating.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi, René Dudfield wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, What happens with pygame.midi.get_count()? Lenard You mean on OSX? I'll check it out for you when I can... my girl friend is finishing off her paper this weekend... so I can't use it again this weekend. I assumed you already had access to OS X to read the error messages. Or did you see them on the build page? I was wondering if the Mac errors come from pypm.Inititialize() or pypm.CountDevices(). That would narrow down where in portmidi the messages are coming from. On my ubuntu laptop it does: import pygame.midi pygame.midi.init() pygame.midi.get_count() 2 ps. I got a default font list from an OSX machine... so I'll add them like how you've added the xp default fonts to sysfont - when the fc-list executable isn't found. pps. Seems The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page (TSAAPBP) has stopped updating. Yes, unless the system provides a reliable way to list fonts and their attributes that is the only way to go. The font file names themselves are unhelpful. Windows XP, for instance, has several conventions for labeling a ttf file as regular, bold, italic or bold-italic. Lenard
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, René Dudfield wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, What happens with pygame.midi.get_count()? Lenard You mean on OSX? I'll check it out for you when I can... my girl friend is finishing off her paper this weekend... so I can't use it again this weekend. I assumed you already had access to OS X to read the error messages. Or did you see them on the build page? I was wondering if the Mac errors come from pypm.Inititialize() or pypm.CountDevices(). That would narrow down where in portmidi the messages are coming from. yeah, I did before. I'll check that out next time I have access... good idea. Yes, unless the system provides a reliable way to list fonts and their attributes that is the only way to go. The font file names themselves are unhelpful. Windows XP, for instance, has several conventions for labeling a ttf file as regular, bold, italic or bold-italic. indeed.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hello again, btw the tests pass on an OSX box without midi now. this seems to print stuff to stderr though... $ python -m pygame.examples.midi --list in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory in stat: : No such file or directory Can't track down where it's printing from. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: This is amazing. Everything is up to rev 2263. How many unit tests were disabled to get all the builds to pass? Lenard hi, just the midi, and the test_get_fonts + test_match_fonts sys font tests. I've enabled them again... The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page squeezed some recent builds out. cu,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I definitely don't have any separately installed portmidi shared library on any machine of mine, but I don't think that one is required on OS X or Windows for proper operation. I think both build bots are getting at the portmidi library just fine. Also, as a rule, I think ever requiring a separately installed and managed library that's not a standard OS component on Win and Mac is the wrong way to do things. Those platforms don't have package managers and Kernel components are quite stable, so therefore is both no good way to manage dll dependencies and there is no benefit to calling out to a shared separately managed version of portmidi vs. statically linking/including the version we tested into pygame, respectively. I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. My windows build box has portmidi.dll in the prebuilts dir, so if the setup for making the installer for pygame picks that dll up properly, then it should be getting that dll just fine. from the build output, it looks like the problem is pygame.midi.get_device_info is returning None - I can tell you my build machines definitely don't have midi devices (neither physical nor virtual) configured, and None seems an appropriate return value in such cases. Maybe it's just the tests are bad for a machine with no midi devices? Brian, can you confirm if it's installed on the OSX build bots? My OS X machine definitely has the static portmidi library (libportmidi.a) and header file (portmidi.h) in the right places (/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include) because they are getting picked up and built in by config.py. I built libportmidi.a myself, and I know it's the static lib, not a linking lib for a dylib or .so or anything like that. Also, do you know how to compile portmidi on OSX? I couldn't get it to compile on OSX (if you can't remember I'll try and work it out :). Yeah, I just used the xcode project under pm_mac and built the static lib without any problem - note the makefiles don't work on mac, and I didn't try a .dylib version (cause I don't see any point to doing so) so it may have problems building. Once I copied the build products to the right place, they got picked up fine.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hello, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.comwrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I definitely don't have any separately installed portmidi shared library on any machine of mine, but I don't think that one is required on OS X or Windows for proper operation. I think both build bots are getting at the portmidi library just fine. Also, as a rule, I think ever requiring a separately installed and managed library that's not a standard OS component on Win and Mac is the wrong way to do things. Those platforms don't have package managers and Kernel components are quite stable, so therefore is both no good way to manage dll dependencies and there is no benefit to calling out to a shared separately managed version of portmidi vs. statically linking/including the version we tested into pygame, respectively. k I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. My windows build box has portmidi.dll in the prebuilts dir, so if the setup for making the installer for pygame picks that dll up properly, then it should be getting that dll just fine. Cool. I think Lenard has made a new prebuilts one that doesn't printf debugging info. from the build output, it looks like the problem is pygame.midi.get_device_info is returning None - I can tell you my build machines definitely don't have midi devices (neither physical nor virtual) configured, and None seems an appropriate return value in such cases. Maybe it's just the tests are bad for a machine with no midi devices? cool. I thought as much - since the init/quit tests seemed to pass. Will fix the tests. Will likely tag them interactive, or make them skip if there's no midi devices. I also didn't want to write output to any midi devices... in-case it woke you up at 3am with some Electric piano 1 notes or something :) So will tag those tests 'interactive'. Brian, can you confirm if it's installed on the OSX build bots? My OS X machine definitely has the static portmidi library (libportmidi.a) and header file (portmidi.h) in the right places (/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include) because they are getting picked up and built in by config.py. I built libportmidi.a myself, and I know it's the static lib, not a linking lib for a dylib or .so or anything like that. Cool. Also, do you know how to compile portmidi on OSX? I couldn't get it to compile on OSX (if you can't remember I'll try and work it out :). Yeah, I just used the xcode project under pm_mac and built the static lib without any problem - note the makefiles don't work on mac, and I didn't try a .dylib version (cause I don't see any point to doing so) so it may have problems building. Once I copied the build products to the right place, they got picked up fine. ah, thanks. Yeah, I tried to do it the makefile way.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hello, René Dudfield wrote: hello, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.com mailto:br...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com mailto:ren...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I definitely don't have any separately installed portmidi shared library on any machine of mine, but I don't think that one is required on OS X or Windows for proper operation. I think both build bots are getting at the portmidi library just fine. Also, as a rule, I think ever requiring a separately installed and managed library that's not a standard OS component on Win and Mac is the wrong way to do things. Those platforms don't have package managers and Kernel components are quite stable, so therefore is both no good way to manage dll dependencies and there is no benefit to calling out to a shared separately managed version of portmidi vs. statically linking/including the version we tested into pygame, respectively. k I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. My windows build box has portmidi.dll in the prebuilts dir, so if the setup for making the installer for pygame picks that dll up properly, then it should be getting that dll just fine. Cool. I think Lenard has made a new prebuilts one that doesn't printf debugging info. I have just uploaded them to my site http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame/ md5sums: 43b88f349db9a72c9841b5cad3cb1840 *prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr71-win32.zip 2e56f320e3c2adde920f4cfe1109d7e7 *prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr90-win32.zip e94cf4e4cfbb0be5011092601b16d0f0 *Pygame-1.9.0-deps-src.zip -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
René Dudfield wrote: I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. My windows build box has portmidi.dll in the prebuilts dir, so if the setup for making the installer for pygame picks that dll up properly, then it should be getting that dll just fine. Cool. I think Lenard has made a new prebuilts one that doesn't printf debugging info. from the build output, it looks like the problem is pygame.midi.get_device_info is returning None - I can tell you my build machines definitely don't have midi devices (neither physical nor virtual) configured, and None seems an appropriate return value in such cases. Maybe it's just the tests are bad for a machine with no midi devices? cool. I thought as much - since the init/quit tests seemed to pass. Will fix the tests. Will likely tag them interactive, or make them skip if there's no midi devices. I also didn't want to write output to any midi devices... in-case it woke you up at 3am with some Electric piano 1 notes or something :) So will tag those tests 'interactive'. Hi, I see the entire midi_test.py module is tagged interactive. Unit tests can be marked interactive on the TestCase and test_* method level as well. See font_test.py for class level tags. To mark a method add |tags: interactive| to its doc string. Lenard
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I see the entire midi_test.py module is tagged interactive. Unit tests can be marked interactive on the TestCase and test_* method level as well. See font_test.py for class level tags. To mark a method add |tags: interactive| to its doc string. Lenard hi, cool, I'll do that for some of the midi tests. I just did it temporarily. The buildbot was about 100 revisions behind since the last successful build/test, so I thought I'd disable the failing tests for a bit, so more recent binaries could be generated. cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
René Dudfield wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net mailto:le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I see the entire midi_test.py module is tagged interactive. Unit tests can be marked interactive on the TestCase and test_* method level as well. See font_test.py for class level tags. To mark a method add |tags: interactive| to its doc string. Lenard hi, cool, I'll do that for some of the midi tests. I just did it temporarily. The buildbot was about 100 revisions behind since the last successful build/test, so I thought I'd disable the failing tests for a bit, so more recent binaries could be generated. cheers, This is amazing. Everything is up to rev 2263. How many unit tests were disabled to get all the builds to pass? Lenard
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: This is amazing. Everything is up to rev 2263. How many unit tests were disabled to get all the builds to pass? Lenard hi, just the midi, and the test_get_fonts + test_match_fonts sys font tests. I've enabled them again... The Spectacularly Adequate Automated Pygame Build Page squeezed some recent builds out. cu,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
René Dudfield wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hello, I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I will repackage the Windows dependencies with a new portmidi that doesn't print debug messages. This will be the official dependencies for Pygame 1.9.0. The ffmpeg libraries, which are somewhat large, will be in a separate zip file that can be dropped into the prebuilt directory for development. Lenard Awesome. I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. Brian, can you confirm if it's installed on the OSX build bots? Also, do you know how to compile portmidi on OSX? I couldn't get it to compile on OSX (if you can't remember I'll try and work it out :). ps. I renamed two functions... cause they were very long. So if anyone was using the pre-release code, you'll need to update your code... as I've broken your program! sorry. from: pygame.midi.get_default_input_device_id to: pygame.midi.get_default_input_id from: pygame.midi.get_default_output_device_id to: pygame.midi.get_default_output_id cheers, Hi René, I just tried Cython on pypm.pyx. I needed to make minor changes to get it to compile. But the C file it generated works with both Python 2.x and 3.x. Should I submit the changes or do you want to compile it yourself. I used Cython 0.11.2 at http://www.cython.org/. Lenard
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I just tried Cython on pypm.pyx. I needed to make minor changes to get it to compile. But the C file it generated works with both Python 2.x and 3.x. Should I submit the changes or do you want to compile it yourself. I used Cython 0.11.2 at http://www.cython.org/. Lenard yeah, cool :) nice one. commit away! I've only got basic unittests in at the moment... but hopefully I'll finish more by the end of the week. cu,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
René Dudfield wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I just tried Cython on pypm.pyx. I needed to make minor changes to get it to compile. But the C file it generated works with both Python 2.x and 3.x. Should I submit the changes or do you want to compile it yourself. I used Cython 0.11.2 at http://www.cython.org/. Lenard yeah, cool :) nice one. commit away! I've only got basic unittests in at the moment... but hopefully I'll finish more by the end of the week. cu, Committed and unit tests passing on Debian. Lenard
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hello, I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I will repackage the Windows dependencies with a new portmidi that doesn't print debug messages. This will be the official dependencies for Pygame 1.9.0. The ffmpeg libraries, which are somewhat large, will be in a separate zip file that can be dropped into the prebuilt directory for development. Lenard Quoting René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com: hi, I made some more updates to the docs, and to create_doc_from_py.py It looks like the midi module is killing the tests on windows... http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php I think portmidi needs to be compiled with debug settings turned off... otherwise it prints stuff out. I think set PM_CHECK_ERRORS to 0. As well as set DEBUG to 0. However I think DEBUG to 0 also sets PM_CHECK_ERRORS to 0, so probably only DEBUG to 0 is needed. Details in README.txt and pm_win/README_win.txt cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: That new program will be useful. Thanks. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: Cool. I added a new tool to test/util for generating .doc files from .py modules with doc strings... eg: python create_doc_from_py.py pygame.midi ../../lib/midi.doc Now pygame.midi also has html docs. cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.netmailto: le...@telus.net wrote: Thanks for the warning. I disabled midi_test.py for Python 3. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers, -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hello, I believe Brian doesn't have portmidi.dll installed. I will repackage the Windows dependencies with a new portmidi that doesn't print debug messages. This will be the official dependencies for Pygame 1.9.0. The ffmpeg libraries, which are somewhat large, will be in a separate zip file that can be dropped into the prebuilt directory for development. Lenard Awesome. I think he does have it installed on at least the windows installs. Brian, can you confirm if it's installed on the OSX build bots? Also, do you know how to compile portmidi on OSX? I couldn't get it to compile on OSX (if you can't remember I'll try and work it out :). ps. I renamed two functions... cause they were very long. So if anyone was using the pre-release code, you'll need to update your code... as I've broken your program! sorry. from: pygame.midi.get_default_input_device_id to: pygame.midi.get_default_input_id from: pygame.midi.get_default_output_device_id to: pygame.midi.get_default_output_id cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers, On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Nirav Patel o...@spongezone.net wrote: I changed the default channel from 1 to 0 and added the channel arg to set_instrument. Committed revision 2158. Nirav On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I added a channel argument to note_on note_off to svn. Committed revision 2154. cheers, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: hi, the Channel stuff isn't wrapped yet in midi.py... See pypm.pyx Channel to see how Channels work. The portmidi.h file also has some good docs to see how it works at the C level. However that's just used for input. I think you can change the channel like this: channel = 1 note = 65 velocity = 100 output.write_short(0x90+channel, note, velocity) ... I think... will need to check the exact codes. So, yeah I agree... we should have a channel default with the note_on/note_off methods. cu, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Nirav Patel o...@spongezone.net wrote: The --list option goes to print_device_info(), which seems to be missing the initialization stuff: pygame.init() pygame.midi.init() I'm new to MIDI in general, but I am planning on using this in a project I'm working on. Is there a reason we are using channel 1 on MIDI Writes rather than having the channel be an argument of the function with a default of 1? Nirav On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Thanks for the warning. I disabled midi_test.py for Python 3. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Cool. I added a new tool to test/util for generating .doc files from .py modules with doc strings... eg: python create_doc_from_py.py pygame.midi ../../lib/midi.doc Now pygame.midi also has html docs. cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Thanks for the warning. I disabled midi_test.py for Python 3. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
That new program will be useful. Thanks. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: Cool. I added a new tool to test/util for generating .doc files from .py modules with doc strings... eg: python create_doc_from_py.py pygame.midi ../../lib/midi.doc Now pygame.midi also has html docs. cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net mailto:le...@telus.net wrote: Thanks for the warning. I disabled midi_test.py for Python 3. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi, I made some more updates to the docs, and to create_doc_from_py.py It looks like the midi module is killing the tests on windows... http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php I think portmidi needs to be compiled with debug settings turned off... otherwise it prints stuff out. I think set PM_CHECK_ERRORS to 0. As well as set DEBUG to 0. However I think DEBUG to 0 also sets PM_CHECK_ERRORS to 0, so probably only DEBUG to 0 is needed. Details in README.txt and pm_win/README_win.txt cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: That new program will be useful. Thanks. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: Cool. I added a new tool to test/util for generating .doc files from .py modules with doc strings... eg: python create_doc_from_py.py pygame.midi ../../lib/midi.doc Now pygame.midi also has html docs. cheers, On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.netmailto: le...@telus.net wrote: Thanks for the warning. I disabled midi_test.py for Python 3. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, there's been a few small updates to the midi stuff. I added a few basic unit tests today. The pass on linux(ubuntu). Looks like the midi tests are failing on Mac OSX. http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php Will have to look into failing OSX tests later... my girl friend is using her mac this weekend. Unless someone else can look into it. I've also finished the docs... in the midi.py file. Now I'm writing a little script to generate a .doc file version from the .py file. cheers,
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
I changed the default channel from 1 to 0 and added the channel arg to set_instrument. Committed revision 2158. Nirav On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I added a channel argument to note_on note_off to svn. Committed revision 2154. cheers, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: hi, the Channel stuff isn't wrapped yet in midi.py... See pypm.pyx Channel to see how Channels work. The portmidi.h file also has some good docs to see how it works at the C level. However that's just used for input. I think you can change the channel like this: channel = 1 note = 65 velocity = 100 output.write_short(0x90+channel, note, velocity) ... I think... will need to check the exact codes. So, yeah I agree... we should have a channel default with the note_on/note_off methods. cu, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Nirav Patel o...@spongezone.net wrote: The --list option goes to print_device_info(), which seems to be missing the initialization stuff: pygame.init() pygame.midi.init() I'm new to MIDI in general, but I am planning on using this in a project I'm working on. Is there a reason we are using channel 1 on MIDI Writes rather than having the channel be an argument of the function with a default of 1? Nirav On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
The --list option goes to print_device_info(), which seems to be missing the initialization stuff: pygame.init() pygame.midi.init() I'm new to MIDI in general, but I am planning on using this in a project I'm working on. Is there a reason we are using channel 1 on MIDI Writes rather than having the channel be an argument of the function with a default of 1? Nirav On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi, the Channel stuff isn't wrapped yet in midi.py... See pypm.pyx Channel to see how Channels work. The portmidi.h file also has some good docs to see how it works at the C level. However that's just used for input. I think you can change the channel like this: channel = 1 note = 65 velocity = 100 output.write_short(0x90+channel, note, velocity) ... I think... will need to check the exact codes. So, yeah I agree... we should have a channel default with the note_on/note_off methods. cu, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Nirav Patel o...@spongezone.net wrote: The --list option goes to print_device_info(), which seems to be missing the initialization stuff: pygame.init() pygame.midi.init() I'm new to MIDI in general, but I am planning on using this in a project I'm working on. Is there a reason we are using channel 1 on MIDI Writes rather than having the channel be an argument of the function with a default of 1? Nirav On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
So it looks like the midi module was always working fine on the mac's that I tested on. What wasn't working was print statements going to the console after pygame.init is called, but only on one computer. stderr kept going to the console, but all stdout (which print was going to) got swallowed, making me thing the midi example was not getting events in the input test The stdout problem seems to happen with multiple pygame (1.8.1 and 1.9.0) and python (2.5, 2.6) versions. Both computers are OS X Leopard and have the exact same versions of SDL stuff. The one that has the stdout going away problem is an iMac with a Leopard upgrade. the one that keeps stdout working just fine is a mac mini with a fresh leopard install. would be nice to be fixed I guess, but I have no idea where I'd start looking for a cause... On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: 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 br...@hamsterrepublic.com 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 ren...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
That patch must be for building with a makefile. It builds fine as is from the xcode project (seems to be the maintained option) On a computer without a real midi device, it looks like both the test program and the midi.py example seem to work with the virtual keyboard. It looks like what must have been happening is that portmidi couldn't find my actual physical midi device on another computer... I'll have to look into it - the piano is only hooked up as an input (not an output), so I suppose that may be part of the problem... anyways, I checked in the config changes a while back, so anyone with a /usr/local/lib/libportmidi.a and /usr/local/include/portmidi.h can build with portmidi support, and the automated builds for mac have had portmidi support built into them for a little while now On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: 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 br...@hamsterrepublic.com 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 ren...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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 br...@hamsterrepublic.com 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 ren...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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 ren...@gmail.com 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
I just fixed a missing comma problem with mac os x building, so it seems to happily build without portmidi, but I'm not sure what the recommended way to get the portmidi dependencies for OS X are? prebuilts? build yourself from svn? from a specific version package? Also, didn't we use to have a page about all the mac os x building dependencies? (libjpeg, libpng, sdl, etc) where is that? On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:48 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
ah cool, thanks for the fix :) All the compilation pages for different platforms are on the wiki: http://pygame.org/wiki/index The mac one is here: http://pygame.org/wiki/MacCompile 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. cheers, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Brian Fisher br...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote: I just fixed a missing comma problem with mac os x building, so it seems to happily build without portmidi, but I'm not sure what the recommended way to get the portmidi dependencies for OS X are? prebuilts? build yourself from svn? from a specific version package? Also, didn't we use to have a page about all the mac os x building dependencies? (libjpeg, libpng, sdl, etc) where is that? On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:48 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: 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.
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Regarding PortTime, the necessary change to the Windows dependency builder is committed to SVN. Thanks for the complement on the keyboard example. I used POV-Ray to get the 3D effect in the sprite images. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: Hi, this is because I guess it could be possible that portmidi is installed, but port time is not... However that's probably a silly reason... since I think portmidi depends on porttime. Also, I didn't think to do that :) ps. that keyboard in the midi example looks really nice. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, Good stuff. I added a main() function to midi.py, for consistency, as well as a --list option. As for porttime it is no big problem to repair the Windows build. Just curious though, why did add a new PORTTIME macro to Setup.in instead of: PORTMIDI = -lportmidi -lporttime Lenard P.S. Brian, just add the line PORTTIME = to prebuilt\Setup_Win.in and the automated Windows builds will continue to work. René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I added a get_device_info(device_id) function... to allow seeing which devices are available. The midi.py example prints out the available devices. it is also compiling on ubuntu... (ya! I finally got my ubuntu partition working again). Had to link in libporttime... and therefore add it as a dependency, which may have broken msys build. Added allowing to specify an optional device_id on the cmd line eg, --input 3 cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. cu! On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:48 PM, René Dudfield ren...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ant...@kyperjokki.fi 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 le...@telus.net 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 le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net midikeyboard.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi, yes, something like that would be good. There could be a separate function running in a background thread to handle all of the input midi. Which I think would just run code similar to what is in the example. Probably something very useful to add. A piano keyboard example would be a very nice one I think :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi René, I will look at the new midi.py and flesh out the keyboard example: port selection, a piano keyboard in the window, more notes, etc. It's good news about the pypm wrapper. One thing I was wondering, is it possible to hide the portmidi event to Pygame event translation, so only Pygame events are visible in the main loop? Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, that's cool. I checked in a new pygame.midi which uses a modified version of your output class. I also put an examples/midi.py in there. It contains an input example, and your output example converted to use the pygame.midi module. python midi.py --output python midi.py --input Also John Harrison said we could use his pyrex pypm portmidi wrapper in pygame :) cu, On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Hi, I'm reposting my keyboard pyportmidi example. It has been changed to use pygame.pypm. The midiport module may be of interest as it contains an output class. The keyboard program could go into the examples, with some improvements. Once midi has been fixed if you want to add keyboard.py to the examples, with the needed changes for pygame.midi, I can spruce it up to make it more intuitive. Usage: The q,w,e and r keys play four notes on the Church Organ instrument. Also the four notes can be played by clicking horizontally across the blue window. It is very simple for now but could be developed into a proper keyboard. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hi again, Another note: Tim Thompson said we could include his patches to pyportmidi, and also include some of his other midi code... You'll also find there a python module (nosuch.midiutil) that contains higher-level routines for MIDI things, including a MIDI file reader, simple scheduler, etc. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Hi, I've added the start of a midi module using portmidi. It's a python module at the moment, and uses the pyportmidi wrapper underneath. It's in lib/midi.py in subversion control, and once it's finished will be available as pygame.midi Lenard has also added portmidi to the windows prebuilts, so the portmidi dlls are available on windows. I also wrote a little sampler type program to play with the other week, and it seems to get ok latency with my midi controller. I haven't timed the latency, but it seems faster than my qwerty keyboard input for example. I converted the midi input events into pygame events, so it was very simple to use... just like any other pygame input (mouse, keyboard, joystick etc) My next step is to write the bindings for portmidi directly... I was going to try and use pyportmidi, but decided against it. since pyportmidi is written in pyrex, whereas pygame uses C modules. Also pyportmidi hasn't been updated since 2005, and doesn't seem to have wide distribution(eg not in debian, or macports). cheers, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net 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 le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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 le...@telus.net 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 le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
René Dudfield wrote: Hi, I've added the start of a midi module using portmidi. It's a python module at the moment, and uses the pyportmidi wrapper underneath. [snip] Lenard has also added portmidi to the windows prebuilts, so the portmidi dlls are available on windows. The latest Pygame dependencies for Windows can be found at: http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame/ md5sum: 0c9b5c65dbd10b5469d2523cf58b7890 *prebuilt-pygame1.9.0-msvcr71-win32.zip The Python 2.4/2.5 one is the most recent. The 2.6 prebuilt lacks portmidi. I need to confirm a bug fix before I officially release a Pygame 1.9.0 build for Python 2.6. I also hope to have numpy ready (built but untried). -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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 ant...@kyperjokki.fi 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 le...@telus.net 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 le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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. cu, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: Thanks. You are aware of PyPortMidi, right? And you should play with the test programs a bit first. Try test.exe with option 6, then after pressing enter to start streaming press enter again before it has finished. I get a mini-crash. That is, it prints an abnormal termination message to the console. An earlier build brought up a dialog box with a program crash report ready for transmission to Microsoft. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: nice one :) I'll start adding the midi stuff in then. I'll put a direct wrapper in as _portmidi.dll and the pygame interface in as midi.py cheers, On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: I built the library for msvcr71.dll and have the binaries, with test programs, on my site: www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame 494d352168fa01866f4cfe8adb620181 *portmidi-msvcr71-win32.zip Lenard Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Yes, I've played around with midi too. I will give the portmidi a go and see if it will link to msvcr71.dll. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, I've been messing around with using midi input and output from pygame using the portmidi library. This should be quite useful for anyone interested in talking to various midi controllers, or music equipment that talks midi. The portmidi dll is only 13KB on windows, so I think maybe 60KB all up once turning it into a python wrapper. It also appears to be quite portable, and is already available in debian/ubuntu/macports/redhat etc. I don't think it supports freebsd, since I don't think freebsd has a finished midi driver yet. portmidi apparently compiles ok with mingw too... but I haven't tried it yet, I've just used a precompiled version. Any objections to including it as an optional part of pygame? I think it'd be very useful for people using pygame for music/multimedia projects... or for people wanting to use more advanced controllers for whatever reason. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
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 le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Thanks. You are aware of PyPortMidi, right? And you should play with the test programs a bit first. Try test.exe with option 6, then after pressing enter to start streaming press enter again before it has finished. I get a mini-crash. That is, it prints an abnormal termination message to the console. An earlier build brought up a dialog box with a program crash report ready for transmission to Microsoft. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: nice one :) I'll start adding the midi stuff in then. I'll put a direct wrapper in as _portmidi.dll and the pygame interface in as midi.py cheers, On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net wrote: I built the library for msvcr71.dll and have the binaries, with test programs, on my site: www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame 494d352168fa01866f4cfe8adb620181 *portmidi-msvcr71-win32.zip Lenard Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Yes, I've played around with midi too. I will give the portmidi a go and see if it will link to msvcr71.dll. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, I've been messing around with using midi input and output from pygame using the portmidi library. This should be quite useful for anyone interested in talking to various midi controllers, or music equipment that talks midi. The portmidi dll is only 13KB on windows, so I think maybe 60KB all up once turning it into a python wrapper. It also appears to be quite portable, and is already available in debian/ubuntu/macports/redhat etc. I don't think it supports freebsd, since I don't think freebsd has a finished midi driver yet. portmidi apparently compiles ok with mingw too... but I haven't tried it yet, I've just used a precompiled version. Any objections to including it as an optional part of pygame? I think it'd be very useful for people using pygame for music/multimedia projects... or for people wanting to use more advanced controllers for whatever reason. -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
Yes, I've played around with midi too. I will give the portmidi a go and see if it will link to msvcr71.dll. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, I've been messing around with using midi input and output from pygame using the portmidi library. This should be quite useful for anyone interested in talking to various midi controllers, or music equipment that talks midi. The portmidi dll is only 13KB on windows, so I think maybe 60KB all up once turning it into a python wrapper. It also appears to be quite portable, and is already available in debian/ubuntu/macports/redhat etc. I don't think it supports freebsd, since I don't think freebsd has a finished midi driver yet. portmidi apparently compiles ok with mingw too... but I haven't tried it yet, I've just used a precompiled version. Any objections to including it as an optional part of pygame? I think it'd be very useful for people using pygame for music/multimedia projects... or for people wanting to use more advanced controllers for whatever reason. cu, -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
Re: [pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
I built the library for msvcr71.dll and have the binaries, with test programs, on my site: www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame 494d352168fa01866f4cfe8adb620181 *portmidi-msvcr71-win32.zip Lenard Lenard Lindstrom wrote: Yes, I've played around with midi too. I will give the portmidi a go and see if it will link to msvcr71.dll. Lenard René Dudfield wrote: hey, I've been messing around with using midi input and output from pygame using the portmidi library. This should be quite useful for anyone interested in talking to various midi controllers, or music equipment that talks midi. The portmidi dll is only 13KB on windows, so I think maybe 60KB all up once turning it into a python wrapper. It also appears to be quite portable, and is already available in debian/ubuntu/macports/redhat etc. I don't think it supports freebsd, since I don't think freebsd has a finished midi driver yet. portmidi apparently compiles ok with mingw too... but I haven't tried it yet, I've just used a precompiled version. Any objections to including it as an optional part of pygame? I think it'd be very useful for people using pygame for music/multimedia projects... or for people wanting to use more advanced controllers for whatever reason. cu, -- Lenard Lindstrom le...@telus.net
[pygame] pygame.midi using portmidi?
hey, I've been messing around with using midi input and output from pygame using the portmidi library. This should be quite useful for anyone interested in talking to various midi controllers, or music equipment that talks midi. The portmidi dll is only 13KB on windows, so I think maybe 60KB all up once turning it into a python wrapper. It also appears to be quite portable, and is already available in debian/ubuntu/macports/redhat etc. I don't think it supports freebsd, since I don't think freebsd has a finished midi driver yet. portmidi apparently compiles ok with mingw too... but I haven't tried it yet, I've just used a precompiled version. Any objections to including it as an optional part of pygame? I think it'd be very useful for people using pygame for music/multimedia projects... or for people wanting to use more advanced controllers for whatever reason. cu,
