More confusion

Hi, all!

Progress is moving along nicely on my project, thanks to your help, so...
thank you!

I'm confused on something.  First, let me make sure I understand a
fundamental the way I think I understand it.

I have a bunch of Sources located in various places in 3D space (or 2D if
it's easier), and these Sources are all playing Mono buffers... maybe
they're moving, maybe they're not.  If I'm playing this through a Device
that supports 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound, will the sounds appear to be
"beside" or "behind" or "in front of" me based on the Location of the
Sources?

Assuming I haven't made a colossal error in understanding above...

I've been looking at the OpenAL Programmer's Gude and I'm totally lost as
to how to configure the Device for which sound mode (2-channel stereo,
quadrophonic, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1 surround etc) it should be using.  Is
this something that is set up outside of OpenAL (in the system or driver
settings) and then OpenAL just uses what is available?  What if the device
supports multiple modes?  How am I supposed to know which mode the user
intends me to use?  Or, assuming I can query the device for supported
modes and then give the user a choice, how do I tell OpenAL or the device
which mode the user chose?

If you can point me to some sample code somewhere I'd be ever so grateful.

Thanks a TON!

- Mark (TD)


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