[PD] List Message Queueing? ( Note on/off messages into vst~ )
saint
saintidle at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 6 18:03:24 CEST 2009
Hi thanks Mathieu!
i just thought of the textfile idea a while after i posted. i use one textfile that when it's caught up with it's queue it deletes it's contents and starts over.
do you think there could be a memory leak in this patch??? i use it with a 2ms interval value...
Thanks again!
John.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: saint <saintidle at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd list <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Saturday, 3 October, 2009 22:49:56
> Subject: Re: [PD] List Message Queueing? ( Note on/off messages into vst~ )
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, saint wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a way to send an object (or an external) a bunch of list
> messages and for that object to then store them and output them at 2ms intervals
> in a sort of a queue.
>
> if the messages are all of a fixed length and all made of floats, you could look
> into using several [pipe] at once.
>
> But if ever you need your messages to be more free-form (variable length, mixed
> symbols) you may enjoy [textfile] even though you won't be writing to files,
> reading from files, converting to text, or from text. It's a misnomer really.
>
> And because you can't delete the queue items that you are done with ([textfile]
> only supports deleting the whole contents), then I suppose it'd be better if you
> use a few counters, and use a second [textfile] so that once in a while, one of
> the [textfile]s only contains obsolete data, so that you can clear it, so that
> you don't make a memory-leak.
>
> Using externals instead of internals, you could use a single [coll], that can
> delete single elements. In that case you save yourself the trouble of
> double-buffering, but afaik you still have to use counters.
>
> if you want something even more automatic, I haven't looked into Holzmann's
> containers, but I assume that they offer a lot more than either [textfile] or
> [coll].
>
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> | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801
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