Hi all,
I am working on a project for a course Im doing which uses PD (in windows) to program a device which understands system exclusive MIDI messages. After discovering that sysex out doesn't seem to be fully implemented under windows yet I went ahead and wrote an external to do it. All is working fine but at the moment I have to hard-code the midi device number into the code.
What I would like to be able to do is to use the device which is selected in PD's midi settings. I've searched the lists but can't seem to find anything related to this. Could anyone tell me how I do this?
p.s. just in case anyone is wondering why I don't just patch the PD source tree (which would be easier of course): I don't want people to have to use a custom build. I would prefer that they can just link in an external at run-time. Also, this is just a small part of a larger project which we want packaged in one external.
Many thanks in advance,
Padraig Kitterick