yes, you can bet it's OSX's Acqua, which uses up
a heck of a lot of CPU. It's a disgrace. I am
sure X-Windows Linux is better that way.

Victor

>
> Dear Steven, Victor, and Other Developers,
>
> I have been testing the virtual keyboard here at OLPC.
> (Not on the OLPC machine yet, but on my Macintosh
> running osX10.4 from the terminal.)
>
> It's great.  So happy to have this utility.
>
> 1. I might like to suggest that if -M0 is selected in the
> command-line, but no MIDI controller is plugged into the
> computer, that rather than exiting out of Csound (giving
> the appearance of a crash) it might be nice for the
> default behavior to start up the fltk   virtual keyboard
> (without required that I add the coomandline option -
> rtmidi=virtual)
>
> Also, when I run %top and look at the cpu load.
> I see that an actual midi keyboard performing
> DirectHamondV2.csd uses   20% of the machine
> and the virtual keyboard performing DirectHamondV2.csd
> uses about 80%   of the machine.
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Is it because of the implementation
> of FLTK on   the Mac?
>
> -dB
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Steven Yi wrote:
>
> > Hi Victor,
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback!  I've been racking by brain
> > trying to debug this thing to make it run reliably but
> > have to say that I'm not all that versed in FLTK as well
> > as C calling C++ code, so any help in those regards from
> anyone would be very much appreciated. >
> > I do occasionally get hung notes too, but I haven't
> > figured out what in the code is causing that, as to me
> > the code looks like it's doing the right thing.  The
> > keyboard itself only records the note-on when it turns
> on as well as note-offs, and the MIDI driver part reads
> > and clears back to zero after using it.  Perhaps there's
> > a threading issue somewhere though, I'll keep looking.
> >
> > As for unstable, could you describe it a bit?  Is it
> > window redrawing issues, notes not playing?  (Any info
> > here would help to diagnose what's going on).
> >
> > I was also running this with valgrind and it seems there
> > is a memory leak somewhere, but for the life of me I
> > can't see where it'd possibly leak memory.  It reports
> > something going on in sensMIDI and the midi reading
> function, but even with everything compiled to debug it
> > has ????'s in the stack trace it gives, so it's been
> > very hard for me to find.
> >
> > Thanks though for your time to check it out!  I'll keep
> > on with it to see if I can make any more progress.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > steven
> >
> >
> > On 10/27/06, Victor Lazzarini 
> wrote: >> actually I got it working on OSX 10.3 here.But
> it seems a little >> unstable.
> >>
> >> At 17:07 27/10/2006, you wrote:
> >>> working here on Linux. But some of the lower notes
> seem to >>> be hanging (might be my own isntrument though)
> >>>
> >>> At 16:54 27/10/2006, you wrote:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've just checked in a project I was working on which
> is an FLTK >>>> virtual keyboard midi driver.  It's
> written as a plugin midi driver >>>> and if you run csound
> using: >>>>
> >>>> -+rtmidi=virtual -M0
> >>>>
> >>>> as your MIDI flags, a keyboard window will pop up
> that looks like a >>>> piano keyboard.  Using the keyboard
> with mouse downs, drags, and up >>>> will fire off MIDI
> notes.  This should be useful in situations   >>>> where
> >>>> you don't have a real MIDI device available (testing
> an orch, when >>>> you're on the road, etc.)
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd appreciate it if others here can update from CVS
> and give it a >>>> try.  There is one bug in particular
> which I have been having a   >>>> hard
> >>>> time diagnosing.  It seems that if you run the
> keyboard either with >>>> --displays or not and the CSD
> has no FLTK widgets, the keyboard   >>>> window
> >>>> will eat up CPU (on Linux here, the xorg process
> takes up a lot of >>>> it).   Any help with that would be
> greatly appreciated. >>>>
> >>>> Also, I haven't had a chance to run on OSX or Windows
> myself, so   >>>> any
> >>>> reports on that would be great.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>> steven
> >>>>
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