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| -rw-r--r-- | audio/midiplayer.h | 12 |
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diff --git a/audio/midiplayer.h b/audio/midiplayer.h index 913d49c68c..fd60d0bc07 100644 --- a/audio/midiplayer.h +++ b/audio/midiplayer.h @@ -41,6 +41,18 @@ namespace Audio { * start of the real thing, which tries to include code replicated between * several of our engines. * + * Eventually, this should offer ways to start playback of SMF and XMIDI + * data (and possibly make it easy to add further playback methods), + * should be able to automatically instantiate _driver as needed, + * should perform memory management on the MidiParser object(s) being + * used, and possibly more. + * + * Also, care should be taken to ensure that mutex locking is done right; + * currently, it isn't: That is, many engines have (and already had before + * this class was introduced) various potential deadlocks hiding in their + * MIDI code, caused by a thread trying to lock a mutex twice -- this may + * work on some systems, but on others is a sure way towards a deadlock. + * * @todo Document origin of this class. It is based on code shared by * several engines (e.g. DRACI says it copied it from MADE, which took * it from SAGE). |