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[GoldenHammer]

We are having some trouble getting OpenAL to work on the Playbook. 

The first OpenAL call we make is:

          alcOpenDevice(0);

When we call alGetError() immediately afterwards, it returns AL_INVALID_OPERATION.

Although the subsequent alGetError call returns AL_INVALID_OPERATION, the call to alcOpenDevice actually does not return 0. The subsequent call to alcCreateContext also generates AL_INVALID_OPERATION but appears to succeed by return value. alcMakeContextCurrent does not generate any errors.

Note: If we call alGetError() prior to the call to alcOpenDevice(), it also returns AL_INVALID_OPERATION. The OAL documentation says it should return AL_NO_ERROR in this case. This may or may not be a clue.

Also note: We have tried calling 

alcOpenDevice(alcGetString(0, ALC_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SPECIFIER));

and 

alcOpenDevice(alcGetString(0, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER));

Both of these calls yield the same result as alcOpenDevice(0);

More information, which might be irrelevant due to the earlier issues: alutLoadMemoryFromFile returns 0 under these circumstances but does not generate an error. alBufferData then generates AL_INVALID_ENUM or AL_INVALID_VALUE, presumably due to the data parameter being passed as 0.

Has anyone here succeeded at using OpenAL in a Blackberry app on the Playbook? What could we be doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any potential leads on this issue.

[guru2000at · Accepted solution]

I'm using openAL for one of our applications.

to init the device i use the following code snipet:

ALCcontext *context;
ALCdevice *device;



if (!alutInit(NULL, NULL)) {
	fprintf(stderr, "init alut error\n");
}
device = alcOpenDevice(NULL);
if (device == NULL) {
	fprintf(stderr, "device error\n");
}

//Create a context
context = alcCreateContext(device, NULL);

[GoldenHammer]

Thanks a lot! Adding the call to alutInit at the beginning fixed the problem.

[useful]

I have a problem.

I can't add to the project openAL library.

When I add writing to a file "common.mk" LIBS+=openal,

in the console I get the error No rule to make target `libopenal.a'.

I read about this problem here, and about the way of a solution here.

To me it didn't help.

[useful]

Still have the problem, but managed to get around it.
When creating a new project you need to "Build Style" to choose "Managed Build".
Then with the connection libraries openAL is not a problem.