Re: [Plib-devel] OpenAL

[Dave M. <dp...@ef...>]

OpenAL is a nice interface and compliments OpenGL very well.  On the other
hand, the implementation is not yet very stable and standard on most
platforms.  On my last project we used the interface, but wrote our own
implementation.

Why not use a C++ class, whose methods closely mirror what we want out of
OpenAL?  This would allow us to start coding the audio SSG nodes and other
features while delaying the dependency until OpenAL is there.

We could allow the application to override the audio with *real* OpenAL by
clever coding such as the Bridge pattern.

- class AudioImp - SL low-level and platform specific code
- class Audio - Abstract Audio interface to rest of PLIB; contains an
AudioImp reference; you can change the AudioImp at run-time before
initialization if you want something else.
- class AudioManager - some of high-level SL code to manage things for us

how can this fail?  lol.

-- David McClurg