[fpc-pascal] playing sound files (linux and windows)

[Henry Vermaak]

On 15 June 2010 09:30, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>>
>> > I think for getting a simple playSoundFile() API to FPC/LCL on all
>> > platforms, dependencies to 3rd-party libs can be avoided.
>>
>> If you want you program to be a good desktop citizen, you should talk
>> directly to the sound daemon (pulse on gnome, phonon on kde?).
>
> The fact that they are different is the main problem there.

Yes, it makes it harder.  Just like gtk vs qt.