[PD-dev] PD-cvs Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 12, 2007, at 11:33 AM, <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Martin Peach wrote:
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>>> nevertheless i think it might be very good if i could distinguish
>>> between the 3 "types" of timetags)
>>>
>>>
>> That's a difficult problem. What's the difference between zero and  
>> zero?
>> I mean how does one tag no delay as being different from a delay  
>> of zero
>> without adding another outlet?
>
> OK, I changed packOSC to output negative delays and it's now  
> obvious, even on the same machine a "current" time tag always has a  
> slight negative delay, whereas an "immediate" time tag is always  
> exactly zero.
> That leaves the slight problem of a "future" message that arrives  
> exactly on time...
> Martin

Wow, nice work!  That sounds like it'll be quite easy to use timetags  
now.  Is there anyway to generate timetags with Pd yet?

.hc

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