[Fwd: Re: [Gtk-sharp-list] Improving Gtk#: Add sound maybe ?]

Orlando Karam okaram@spsu.edu
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:39:49 -0400


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I'm an idiot, I replied to Miguel instead of whole list. BTW, that would
be an improvement to the list :) have it fill the Reply-To field :)

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Subject: Re: [Gtk-sharp-list] Improving Gtk#: Add sound maybe ?
From: Orlando Karam <okaram@spsu.edu>
To: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:23:51 -0400
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This is probably not something that affects GTK# alone; it could be
something to bug gtk to add :), or adding another library to the mono
stack.

I'm thinking about writing games for toddlers or kids, and would like to
use GTK# and Mono; however, there is no sound support. I could get SDL
or something like that, but that would add more dependencies and
complexity. 

I think many apps today use sound and some simple functions would make
sense. Just a simple API with limited capabilities. Win32 has Play, that
plays a .wav, and wxWidgets has wxSound.

As an example, here's a link to documentation on the wxSound class
http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/wxWindows/docs/wxwin_wxsound.html

I've read opinions saying sound doesn't belong in gtk, but I
respectfully disagree.

>  
> Orlando Karam <okaram@spsu.edu>
> SPSU

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