Re: Siren on Squeak
Posted by
Cesare Marilungo on
May 23, 2007; 3:00pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Siren-on-Squeak-tp134163p134169.html
Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
> Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
>> Given this, and the old Siren 3.0 on Squeak, it should be easy to get
>> the bulk of Siren running on Squeak again. There are 2 areas that
>> will need some work.
>>
>> 1) I rewrote all the external interface classes (sound I/O, MIDI I/O,
>> FFT, etc.) to use VisualWorks DLLCC. The actual external code (the C
>> side) should be quite portable, and uses stable cross-platform
>> libraries such as PortAudio and PortMIDI. All that would need to be
>> done would be to turn my DLLCC libraries into Squeak VM plug-ins and
>> write wrapper classes to mirror the DLLCC external interfaces
>
> that would be of interest just by itself... it would make Squeak a
> much more capable multimedia tool.
>
>
Exactly.
It's a pity that the multimedia functionalities of squeak have been left
behind.
As much as I appreciate all the work done on lots of interesting
projects, audio and video processing should have been a priority for squeak.
Imagine all the things one could make with such a great development
paradigm if those functionalities were built-in.
c.
> Stef
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