[Openal] alcGetProcAddress question

[Chris Robinson]

On Monday 14 May 2007 08:51:28 am you wrote:
> I believe the former is the case.  In theory, you could have two
> devices, each with their own native OpenAL implementation.  When you
> query for an extension, you'd have to get the entry point from that
> device's driver, which would obviously need to be different for each
> device.

That's what I was afraid of.

> > I'm trying to set this up in a way that I can dynamicly load OpenAL and
> > grab all known functions (both base and extensions) when initializing,
> > then use them throughout the program. But if different devices can return
> > different valid functions, that won't really be possible
>
> Unless you assume that you'll only be using one device/implementation at
> a time.

I can't assume that, unfortunately.

Thanks for the reply.