[Gambas-user] Sound

[Rob]

On Saturday 26 July 2003 19:38, Trax wrote:
> Hello my question is when will Gambas support MIDI and WAV sound files?

It's planned for eventual inclusion via SDL, but you can do it now by starting 
mplayer or xmms in "slave mode" and sending a play command (using the process 
object, much like writing to an open file) whenever you want to play a 
sample.  I don't know about MIDI files, but playing those through timidity or 
something similar should be possible the same way.  I have released a Gambas 
program PVRec that takes an MPEG stream and saves it to disk while 
simultaneously playing it in MPlayer in realtime, so this isn't just 
theoretical.

Gambas doesn't have a million components written yet, but thankfully, Linux 
makes it a lot easier to control external programs than Windows does ;)

Rob