Re: [AD] proposed changes to sound API

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17-Dec-08, at 12:02 AM, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > Let's not forget to put al_get_<object>_<datatype>(<property>) ->
> > al_get_<object>_<property> (eg, al_get_sample_frequency) to the TODO
> > list; I don't think anyone disagrees with that.
> Is that to replace the current al_get_sample* or to supplement them?

Opinions are divided on the subject. ;)

It may be easiest to simply have al_get_sample_frequency() call  
al_get_sample_float(frequency), at least at first. It's certainly what  
I would start with.

Personally, I can't really say I see an advantage in the current API  
at all. Well, there is one: getting a large number of properties can  
be done with a loop instead of several lines of source code. I don't  
think there are enough properties to make that worthwhile.

Evert