on the subject of Virtual MIDI

[Ben Kamen]

This list seems dormant, but anyways... 

A lot more apps (Magellan, Animoog) are publishing their Virtual MIDI inputs nowadays. 

Obviously, to send MIDI to one of these MIDI ports, we need to be able to distinguish if it is a "virtual" port to begin with, since sending virtual MIDI is different than sending "normal" MIDI.  

Can anyone tell me how to do this?  I've looked at the MIDI Services reference, but I don't see how to query this property on an EndpointRef.   

Thanks for any help. 

Ben

[Rob Fielding]

In my apps, I had written my MIDI-out code before Virtual MIDI existed, and it just worked when Virtual MIDI apps came out.  So, there is nothing to do for sending; at least in some cases.

For MIDI-in it's a different matter, but others can point you to what you need to do.

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[Jesse Chappell]

I think the distinction you are actually making is between virtual
midi ports exposed by apps and "hardware" midi ports. Virtual midi
endpoints don't have entities, so the way I tell them apart is the
following:

BOOL IsHardwareEndpoint(MIDIEndpointRef ref)
{
MIDIEntityRef entity = 0;

MIDIEndpointGetEntity(ref, &entity);
if (entity) {
return YES;
}
else {
return NO;
}
}

jlc

[Ben Kamen]

Ah, thank you that seems to do it!