[Bluemusic-users] Request for help testing new feature

[Steven Y. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I've placed a blue.jar file at:

http://www.kunstmusik.com/blue.jar

This contains most of the changes I have planned for 0.107.0 (even
though the program will say 0.106.0).  To use, just copy over the
blue.jar in blue/lib folder (make a copy of the old one if you want to
revert).  What I am most particularly interested in is if users could
try dowloading this and running it to try out the ProgramOptions and
see if the [...] buttons for audio in/out and midi in/out work to
auto-discover what devices are available for the selected audio or
midi driver.  I have tested on Linux and Windows but could not get the
OSX version of Csound installed (somehow corrupted, will try to find
another version) so could only code for coreaudio and using the
coreaudio driver source code as a reference.

What is implemented:
  Audio:
    PortAudio (pa, pa_bl, pa_cb)
    WinMME
    ALSA
    CoreAudio

   MIDI:
     PortMidi
     WinMME

For Alsa audio, I read /proc/asound/pcm to get card info, but I don't
know what I am supposed to read for discovering midi ports (if anyone
knows, I'd appreciate it!).  Otherwise, users can always type in what
they want, which actually seems rather normal for Linux Alsa MIDI
users I guess.

I'm having problems with figuring out a way to discover Jack Clients,
but maybe this should also just be something users type in. (?)

If everyone who has a free moment could give this a try on all the
platforms and report anything, I'd really very much appreciate it.  I
think this feature will really make setting up Csound and blue very,
very easy.

Any feedback and suggestions very much appreciated!
Thanks,
steven