[Openal] Questions about alutInit()

[D. Hageman]

alutInit is not technically part of the specification and therefore 
potentially not available on a specific platform.  How it is implemented 
on each platform also varies.


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, bernardo escalona wrote:

> Hello fellow audio programmers.
>
> Ive noticed in most OpenAL tutorials they suggest initializing AL the 
> "manual" way":
>
> ALCcontext *Context;
> ALCdevice *Device;
> Device = alcOpenDevice((ALubyte*)"OSS");
> Context=alcCreateContext(Device, NULL);
> alcMakeContextCurrent(Context);
>
> However Ive always used the ALUT init function:
>
> alutInit(0, NULL);
>
> Which has always worked fine for me. It grabs the native device as default 
> and creates the context automatically. Is there any reason to do it manually?
>
> Another question, alutInit takes two arguments, but if you look at the actual 
> function declaration you'll see thay they are not used. Did they intend for 
> the func to take the desired device name as argument and never got around to 
> it?

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