Thanks for the information. If you agree, I will try to implement my
realtime features in standard Csound sources. My intention is to merge
the two versions in one. The only problem should be the command line
flags. I can implement a flag associated to a special character (for
example "-*") which is reserved for custom platform features, merging it
to another character that represent the feature to be enabled (for
example, to enable midi out device n.1 one can use " -*Q1" or to enable
the midi in device number 3 one can use "-*K3" flag).

What do you think of that? I'm waiting for your answer and for
suggestions from you and the csound community.
--
Gabriel Maldonado

http://www.agora.stm.it/G.Maldonado/home2.htm

jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:

> Message written at 20 Apr 1998 22:13:29 +0100
> CC: csound@noether.ex.AC.UK
>
> In-reply-to: <35386183.644F2119@agora.stm.it> (message from Gabriel
> Maldonado
>         on Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:17:07 +0200)
> References:  <35386183.644F2119@agora.stm.it>
>
> I put the makefile for MSVC in the src zip over the weekend, and moved
>
> it to the server at about 11am Monday.  I also fixed a nagging bug in
> the graphics in the Windows code, so I repaced csound_win.zip as well.
>
> I am sorry for the delay in replying, but a machine in our lab at the
> U caught fire on Thursday/Friday night and apart from the smell of hot
>
> plastic we lost /usr/local/ on which the mailer resided (as well as
> latex, perl, netscape, mosaic, ...).  I can now read mail at the
> university but I cannot reply directly.  I can send mail from home,
> and then carry it to the U.  This is introducing a long delay in
> replies.  And I have a lare number of answers to give.
>
> ==John
> X-UIDL: c2aa00acad4e65726eab009dfb172ea1

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Gabriel Maldonado wrote:

> Thanks for the information. If you agree, I will try to implement my
> realtime features in standard Csound sources. My intention is to merge
> the two versions in one. The only problem should be the command line
> flags. I can implement a flag associated to a special character (for
> example "-*") which is reserved for custom platform features, merging it
> to another character that represent the feature to be enabled (for
> example, to enable midi out device n.1 one can use " -*Q1" or to enable
> the midi in device number 3 one can use "-*K3" flag).
> 
> What do you think of that? I'm waiting for your answer and for
> suggestions from you and the csound community.

A potential problem that I can see is that on platforms that have shells
that work correctly (i.e. unix) the special characters get interpreted
so they never actually get to the program itself (for example, '-*' gets
expanded to a minus plus all possible characters so to all files present
in the current directory beginning with '-', which is probably not what was
intended). Maybe a regular character would be better.

Nicola

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Nicola Bernardini
E-mail: nicb@axnet.it
 
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
with pictures.