[Openal-devel] last call: ALC_EXT_disconnect

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> IMO, I think it should just be clarified that an ALCdevice isn't considered 
> disconnected by OpenAL while the ALC_CONNECTED property returns ALC_TRUE. 
> Whatever the implementation or system does is up to the implementation/system, 
> but as long as ALC_CONNECTED is ALC_TRUE, everything will continue to function 
> as normal regardless of physical (dis)connects.

That's a good idea...that'll really clean up the spec.

> Hmm, okay. If possible then, something I'd like to have noted is that the 
> device list may not update if there's devices open (capture or playback, 
> disconnected or not). Re-probing devices could require unloading and reloading 
> the backend libs, and you can't do that if there's a device open using the 
> libs.

I don't know, there's no reason an implementation couldn't impose that 
requirement (it simply won't list new devices if it can't at the 
moment), but I don't think it should be spec-enforced. Most lowlevel 
implementations wouldn't need that requirement, but I could see a high 
level wrapper AL thingy having that issue.

--ryan.