Help :P

Hi all,

Here come my first doubts :P

I need to be sure screen / audio / input devices are available or working...

Under PB i used to do it like this

If initaudio() ..
If initjoystick() ..
If openscreen() ..

But i see no way to do this under Bmax :\

Does it matter ? I mean, can i play sound even if the audio device is not present or does that throw some sort of error?

For joysticks:

If Not JoyCount() Print "No joysticks found!"

For graphics see:

GraphicsModeExists()

Although that does not guarantee the display will be opened.
You'll likely get a 'Unable to open graphics screen' message and the progam will terminate.

If no sound card exist the program just terminates if you do something like:

sfx=LoadSound("test.wav")

This is the kind of situation i want to avoid!
There is no excuse for this, at least some sort of checking should be implemented!

I don't think it does - it just doesn't play any sounds. Freeaudio certainly doesn't terminate.

I think you're pretty much guaranteed that the graphics, sound and input systems are working, no real need to check.

As a quick test I disabled my sound card and ran a few examples with sound. They terminate with

'Unhandled memory exception error'

Is this what you're looking for?
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=42231
It'd be nice to know what is going to be officially added to a module or whether we'll have to add and manage them ourselves.