[PD-dev] sendOSC bug - cannot send numeric symbols

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> But, I'm using [pack s s s], and as the attached patch shows the real 
> type of each atom in the list is preserved as it should be, it's only 
> when it reaches sendOSC that the 'reinterpretation' occurs.
> 
> Anyway, I rewrote the receiving program to accept numbers instead of 
> strings, because I had that option, but this won't always be possible, 
> so my conclusion is that sendOSC is broken.

Okay, I now checked the source code, and indeed, when typetags are on,
numeric values are converted inside to be INT or FLOAT. The check is here: 

typedArg ParseToken(char *token) {
    char *p = token;
    typedArg returnVal;

    /* It might be an int, a float, or a string */

    if (*p == '-') p++;

    if (isdigit(*p) || *p == '.') {
        while (isdigit(*p)) p++;
        if (*p == '\0') {
            returnVal.type = INT_osc;
            returnVal.datum.i = atoi(token);
            return returnVal;
        }
        if (*p == '.') {
            p++;
            while (isdigit(*p)) p++;
            if (*p == '\0') {
                returnVal.type = FLOAT_osc;
                returnVal.datum.f = atof(token);
                return returnVal;
            }
        }
    }

    returnVal.type = STRING_osc;
    returnVal.datum.s = token;
    return returnVal;
}

Every element in the "send"-list will get passed through ParseToken(),
and the isdigit()-checks will of course match the numeric values and
set the types to INT_osc ("i") or FLOAT_osc ("f"). 

Well, I don't know what to do about this.

Ciao
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