Re: How to Get Started with CoreAudio Programming
Re: How to Get Started with CoreAudio Programming
- Subject: Re: How to Get Started with CoreAudio Programming
- From: Dave Fernandes <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:23:25 -0400
Hi Ash,
It doesn't look like anyone has replied on the listserv, so...
.NET is most comparable to Apple's Cocoa framework, and Cocoa has
excellent documentation and several tutorials. Unfortunately,
CoreAudio is used by only a fraction of Apple's developers, and it's
documentation has been neglected in comparison.
If you haven't already done so, I would suggest looking at the
example code in the "Developer/Examples/CoreAudio" (distributed with
Xcode), rather than trying to learn everything from the API docs. The
example code is also undocumented :( but Apple engineers answer
pretty much all directed, API related questions posed on this list.
So the strategy is a bit different from learning .NET... With Core
Audio, try stuff out and ask a lot of questions. Personally, I'd
rather be able to read the docs, but as you have found, that strategy
doesn't work here.
It took me a couple weeks to get my head around the basic core audio
API.
Good luck!
Dave
On Aug 31, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Ash Oakenfold wrote:
Hi,
If I want to learn .NET there are numerous resources to do so.
Microsoft does an excellent job with its documentation, books,
tools, and languages. The ramp up on a new API or language is small
and I can be productive in a very short amount of time.
This also holds true for Flex. I literally studied Flex for 2 weeks
and then got a job doing it professionally. Adobe has excellent SDK
documentation with a lot of sample code. The market for training
books and videos is also there.
I'm having a VERY difficult time with Mac programming. I feel like
I've been given a list of function names and pushed out the door.
The amount of documentation and sample code is virtually non-
existent. Correct me if I'm wrong.
If I had never used a List box in Flex, I could reference this
page. It has a list of all the properties, events, and functions
with descriptions. It also has a code example on every page.
Navigation is clean and its easy to absorb the content.
I can't find an approach vector with CoreAudio. It seems like only
way is to learn is to spend countless hours poking stuff with a
stick to see what it'll do. Yes, I've seen the reference page and
read the Core Audio Overview PDF.
Where are the resources to quickly become productive with CoreAudio?
Regards,
Ash
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