[PD-dev] multicast patch to OSCx

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Jan 2 02:40:22 CET 2007


I committed it without the changes to configure.ac since those broke  
the Pd-extended build stuff.  We'll see tomorrow whether it builds on  
Windows...

.hc

On Dec 28, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did this patch quickly because I needed it.
>
> The changes are _very_ simple, so I have some confidence that it  
> should work.
>
> Some quick tests under Linux and OS X showed that it was working.   
> I haven't tried the patch under Windows. (Never compiled Pd under  
> Windows actually.)
>
> Testing the TTL parameter is not so easy... you need to test  
> several ranges of subnets.  Setting it to 0 showed that a message  
> could be sent to localhost but not to another computer on the  
> subnet, so that at least supports the theory that it works.  But I  
> haven't tried it over the internet.
>
> By the way, I made the changes based on this tutorial:
> http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/multicast/antony/index.html
>
> Testing it with Max/MSP's " net.multi.send/receive" objects  
> produced some garbage... I'm not sure what that was all about. But  
> testing it with Max 4.6's udpsend/receive objects worked fine.
>
> Another change I'd like to make is to have sendOSC support some  
> arugments for port/host instead of having to send it the "connect"  
> message, but I thought that kind of change would be out of this  
> patch's scope.
>
> Let me know if anyone has comments or criticisms, I'd be happy to  
> make changes and re-submit the patch.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 12/28/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> This patch adds multicast support to the OSCx libs, it looks useful,
> but I don't really use OSC, so I couldn't say if its worth taking or
> not:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
> func=detail&aid=1612910&group_id=55736&atid=478072
>
> Shall we trying it in the nightly test builds?  Anyone willing to
> vouch for this patch so that it can be included in the next release?
>
> .hc
>
>


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