Not possible to have I/O pair of MIDI ports with same name?

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Hey, just wanting to verify that in JUCE, you can’t set up an I/O pair of virtual MIDI ports for an app and give them the same name?

std::unique_ptr<MidiOutput> myMidiOut;
std::unique_ptr<MidiInput>  myMidiIn;

myMidiOut = MidiOutput::createNewDevice("My App");
jassert(myMidiOut != nullptr);

myMidiIn = MidiInput::createNewDevice("My App", this);
jassert(myMidiIn != nullptr);  // this gets thrown

If I change the device name for one of the pair to something different, it works fine.

I’ve done Max standalone apps before where each port of an I/O pair had the same names, so the macOS MIDI system seems fine with it. Seems to be a limitation of how JUCE handles the ports…?

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Looks like there was a typo in the part of the CoreMIDI code which creates the unique name for MIDI ports which I’ve fixed in 50f90fd, this should solve your issue.

3

Excellent, thank you for the quick fix!