04-04-2005
Well loong story short...
I am/was a RPG gamer back in my miguided happy youth... The first ever role-playing game I ever played... well, I dabbled with D&D no not AD&D back in highschool in 79-83, but yes later I did play AD&D....as a young adult.
When I went to college, some friends of mine were playing a fairly new game "RuneQuest" which I started playing. My first character was a sniveling little theif named Malek named after a character from an episode of "HE-Man: Masters of the Universe". Well he died a miserable death.... so for my second toon, I reversed the name to Kelam and surname of Magnus, since he was a Troll and Magnus seemed ominous and threatening...
In recent years of the inception of online message boards I kept the name as my screen name. Sometimes run together or with an underbar Kelam_Magnus.
Ergo Kelam Magnus was born, circa fall 1985.
And now you know "the REST of the Story"
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get_midi_length
get_midi_length(3alleg4) Allegro manual get_midi_length(3alleg4)
NAME
get_midi_length - Determines the total playing time of a midi, in seconds. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
int get_midi_length(MIDI *midi);
DESCRIPTION
This function will simulate playing the given MIDI, from start to end, to determine how long it takes to play. After calling this function,
midi_pos will contain the negative number of beats, and midi_time the length of the midi, in seconds.
Note that any currently playing midi is stopped when you call this function. Usually you would call it before play_midi, to get the length
of the midi to be played, like in this example:
length = get_midi_length(my_midi);
play_midi(my_midi);
do {
pos = midi_time;
textprintf_ex(screen, font, 0, 0, c, -1, "%d:%02d / %d:%02d
",
pos / 60, pos % 60, length / 60, length % 60);
rest(100);
} while(pos <= length);
RETURN VALUE
Returns the value of midi_time, the length of the midi.
SEE ALSO
load_midi(3alleg4), midi_time(3alleg4), midi_pos(3alleg4), exmidi(3alleg4)
Allegro version 4.4.2 get_midi_length(3alleg4)