Re^4: sound and gamepad support in Perl?

I've got the O'Reilly, "Perl Hacks" book by chromatic... in it, the one who contributed Hack #16 claims under the section "Animating with SDL Perl", and I quote (emphasis mine): "Add Sound and input handling, and you're (mostly) done! Sound is too easy to use to show here; input handling requires the proper monitoring of events reported by an instance of SDL::Event." It then goes on to give a couple sentences more on input handling, which I'm sure are helpful to someone... So there you have it... apparently sound was way too trivial to mention in the hack book... which means it should not be at all hard... cuz if it isn't well documented, it must mean that it's trivial. And, yes, I'm being sarcastic... rolling my eyes... and um... am just a bit jaded.

Ok... I'll check the "Perl Hacks" book, if I have a chance later on. But "the answer is to use SDL" is probably do just for me for the time being:)

Perl isn't a multimedia language without some... um... attachments...

If you are going to bitch Larry Wall about this, you definitly got me on your side. Just let me know when the time come, OK? :)

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Re^5: sound and gamepad support in Perl? by raybies (Chaplain) on Jan 08, 2011 at 18:16 UTC
Yes, Perl6 needs a single op to cause the creation of dancing clown animation widgets with surround sound... we should form a committee... :) btw, you're probably better off checking out the many SDL tutorials on CPAN, rather than checking out the Perl Hack's book... cuz there's really only a page or two on the topic, and if that's why you'd buy the book, you'd probably feel a bit ripped off...	[reply]
Re^6: sound and gamepad support in Perl? by AGhoulDoingPerl (Sexton) on Jan 08, 2011 at 18:34 UTC
you're probably better off checking out the many SDL tutorials on CPAN, rather than checking out the Perl Hack's book OK, I'll try CPAN tutorial before the Perl Hack. Thanks for the tip:)	[reply]
Re^7: sound and gamepad support in Perl? by kthakore (Acolyte) on Jan 15, 2011 at 05:02 UTC
The quickest way to get started with SDL Perl would be to look at the SDL Manual that in the works but the best resource at this point. SDL Manual You will find a sound chapter in there. To run the code listings described in the code have a look at the github repository. Additionally you can ask us questions and provide us feed back on the mailing list or the irc channel #sdl.	[reply]