AHI Developer's Guide, version 4.16

Copyright © 1994-1997 Martin Blom

The latest release of AHI can always be found at <URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/ahi.html>.

Overview                    Brief introduction
Distribution                What you are allowed to do and not
The Author                  Who designed it?

Definitions                 Terms used in this document
Function Interface          The low-level API
Device Interface            The high-level API
Data Types And Structures   The structures explained

Concept Index               Concept Index
Data Type Index             Data Type Index
Function Index              Function Index
Variable Index              Variable Index

 -- The Detailed Node Listing ---

Function Interface

Guidelines                  
Opening And Closing ahi.device For Low-level Access  
Obtaining The Hardware      
Declaring Sounds            
Making Noise                

Device Interface

Opening And Closing ahi.device For High-level Access  
Reading From The Device     
Writing To The Device       

Data Types And Structures

Data Types                  
Structures                  

Overview

This document was written in order to make it easier for developers to understand and use AHI in their own productions, and write Software That Works(TM).

ahi.device has two different API's; one library-like function interface (low-level), and one "normal" device interface (high-level). Each of them serves different purposes. The low-level interface is targeting music players, games and real-time applications. The high-level interface is targeting applications that just want to have a sample played, play audio streams or record samples as easily as possible.

As with everything else, it is important that you chose the right tool for the job--you'll only get frustrated otherwise.

Not everything about AHI is documented here; for more information, see AHI User's Guide and the autodocs.

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