[PD] osc objects
Martin Peach
martinrp at vax2.concordia.ca
Tue May 9 19:36:22 CEST 2006
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> On May 1, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> I have to say that I really think that tcp and udp objects should
>>> be bidirectional. TCP and UDP sockets are, so the objects should
>>> represent that. I've done quite a bit of network programming with
>>> Pd and I never use [netsend]/[netreceive]. I always use
>>> [netserver]/ [netclient] because of the bidirectional connection
>>> and the client management of the [netserver].
>>
>>
>> OK, it looks like basically the same modifications are needed to
>> change [netserver] and [netclient] to byte mode from pd message mode
>> as I did with [netsend] and [netreceive]. Will have a go.
>
>
> Just out of curiousity, why do you use byte mode rather than message
> mode? Do you mean that you are sending one byte per packet?
>
I mean that netsend sends messages terminated with a semicolon and
tcpsend/udpsend sends messages that are just bytes, so there is no
escaping or interpretation done (except to check that each element is
encodable as a single byte). It won't send a lone byte unless the
message contains only one byte.
For example the message
[send 13 10(
will send a CR/LF as two bytes.
> What about just a [socket] object which could also do UNIX sockets,
> or any other kind? It would probably be more work, but worth it in
> the long run. Then [tcpsocket], etc. could be a Pd object.
>
Yes this is probably the best idea.
I'm looking at the netclient and netserver code to see if they can be
combined somehow. I'm moving incrementally so as not to lose everything...
Unix sockets don't exist on Windows. Do they exist on MacOS? Does
anybody use them, I mean is there any advantage in using a unix socket
versus a udp socket?
I notice that netserver/netclient use timers and pthreads while
netsend/netreceive use pollfunctions. Is there any preference for either?
> .hc
>
>> Martin
>>
>>> I think the "server" aspect could be a separate object. I think
>>> the socket objects should represent just the sockets, and how the
>>> sockets work.
>>
How would that work in PD? Seems a server would have to be connected to
one or more sockets that are dynamically created as connections come in.
Martin
>>>
>>> .hc
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