state in streams (was Re: [gephex-devel] [Bug 115] libmidi does not support "running status")

[Georg Seidel]

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> I propose that the input modules must convert the byte streams from the
> hardware interface to event streams. The event sets must be usable
> without keeping a parser state in all stream handling modules.
>
> -> no running status
> -> no splitting of midi messages

I agree for gephex-0.5. For 0.4, I think the current behaviour works 
well enough.
In most cases (alsa sequencer driver, wavein driver, and probably also 
raw alsa
and OSS), there will not be partial midi messages. And the missing 
support
for running status did not cause noticable problems for me so far, so I 
guess it
is a minor issue.

For gephex 0.5 we could use OSC with special restrictions as the 
internal
event type.

Georg

P.S.: Could somebody with midi hardware please test the running status 
feature in
libmidi?
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