detect_midi_driver3alleg
Detects whether the specified midi sound device is available. allegro game programming library.
Usage
#include <allegro.h>
int detect_midi_driver(int driver_id);
Overview
Detects whether the specified MIDI sound device is available. This function must be called _before_ install_sound().
Return value
Returns the maximum number of voices that the driver can provide, or zero if the hardware is not present.
There are two special-case return values that you should watch out for: if this function returns -1 it is a note-stealing driver (eg. DIGMID) that shares voices with the current digital sound driver, and if it returns 0xFFFF it is an external device like an MPU-401 where there is no way to determine how many voices are available.
Releases
4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.