> Looking at the acconnect code as well as the Pd diff that got rid of the 
> autoconnect code, it looks like it's 
> pretty easy to list i/o port info.

yes, all of the commands work fine except "aconnect -l”. At least it didn’t the 
last time I tried which is when I gave up. I am away from my linux machine 
right now, but I can try tomorrow.

> > I however, don’t know either if this is an issue for anybody else…
> 
> It'd be helpful to know whether it's a general issue or not. 
I agree…

J




> If it is a general issue then Pd will almost 
> certainly inherit those problems if I add the functionality I want.  aconnect 
> is about as simple a wrapper 
> around alsa's API as you can get.
> 
> (> and !>) best,
> J
> 
> 
> 
> > On Apr 21, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Miller Puckette <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know of any reason this can't be done.  The main alsa api limitation
> > that has stopped me is: Not Worth the Hassle.  That, however, is subjective 
> > -
> > if you indeed want to attack it I'll be glad to see it (and perhaps even
> > borrow it into vanilla if you're game).
> > 
> > cheers
> > Miller
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:25:26PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> >> 
> >>    On Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:39 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig 
> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 2016-04-21 06:38, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> >>>> Why can't alsa midi report "connectable" devices inside Pd, to 
> >>>> be displayed in a dropdown?
> >> 
> >>> because nobody has implemeted it.
> >> 
> >> I'm mainly fishing for any potential alsa api limitations that would make 
> >> doing what I want very difficult or impossible.  Like "it garbles the 
> >> device 
> >> names", or "crashes every Tuesday", etc.
> >> -Jonathan
> >> 
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