Quoting John Richards ajtr@us.ibm.com:
I'm trying to open a midi port to receive incoming midi commands and am completely stuck (after a week of trying everything I can think of). I've confirmed that the MIDIPlugin is loaded. I've tried on both Windows XP and MacOS. The only port I have available is this:
MIDI Ports: 0: QuickTime MIDI (out)
John
Hi John,
I am not an expert in this area, but I did get MIDI-in working on Windows. I think you'll need a physical MIDI input device, e.g. if you can borrow a USB (piano) keyboard, or something like a MIDISport box. Squeak just sees what the system sees. I don't believe you'll be able to automagically conjure up a port.
If you evaluate SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported, you should get true on Windows, and false on OSX and Linux. So you'll only be able to do MIDI-in on Windows, for the moment.
Craig Latta was planning to port to these OSs- see this thread: http://www.nabble.com/MIDI-support-td13476203.html#a15745241
Craig, any news?
Cheers, ...Stan