Excellent questions. Just to review, the pm_dll.dll is there because Windows used to crash if you left a midi input port open, and this was the best way (I knew) to close it. Maybe SetUnhandledExceptionFilter would have been better. However, testing indicates that this Windows crashing bug has been fixed. I haven't found any official confirmation, but testing seems conclusive.
To make things more interesting, we've just discovered that the pm_dll.dll does not work under Vista -- closing the midi in port from the DLL apparently causes the process to at least hang for a long time. Therefore, my recommendation is scrap the whole DLL thing. At best, it seems to be unnecessary. There's a compile-time #define for that, but you also need to stop linking with the DLL static interface library. We're in the process of fixing all the Visual C++ projects, cleaning up the code, and testing these changes. If you leave the DLL in (or current applications use it), it really does nothing if you properly close midi ports before you exit, so "nice" applications should run under Vista without problems. (Maybe that's why no one noticed the problem.) -Roger _______________________________________________ media_api mailing list media_api@create.ucsb.edu http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/media_api
