[aPc-dev] more changes to play.h/.cpp

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Hello Oliv',

I haven't heared from you for a while, I
hope you're fine.

I did more changes to the code of the play
class. As the plib library doesn't support
recording I looked further for another
suitable soundlib, that supports ALSA and
OSS drivers as well as playing and recording.

I changed then from plib to allegro, which
is actually a gaming library, that supports
much more than only sound. But the sound
capabilities are really impressive. It does
support playing and recording, it has support
for audio streaming and it handles the
audio buffers very flexible. Moreover, it
gives excellent and accurate control about the
exact playing position - the audioframe, that
is just played throughout the audio device.

The allegro-section of the Play-class is 
complete so far. It supports all features, 
that the OSS-section provided (play all from
cursor on, play only selection, play only
unselected from the cursor on).

According to the allegro documentation, all
this should work on windows, too. I still
haven't managed to get a working version
compiled on windows, which is a matter of
time and patience I think - to be honest,
I didn't try very hard, yet.

In the next days/weeks, I will find time to
convert the record.h/.cpp code also to work
with allegro.

Due to the streaming functions of allegro,
I might begin playing with some new features
to save user's memory. Maybe I find ways to
support harddisk recording and to make apc-
studio work directly on the harddisk instead
of the ram (it should be the users choice).

O.k., that was the latest news for now.

I hope you agree with the changes and maybe
you can use some code for your windows 
porting...

CU




Martin

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