[PD-dev] PD externals/extras/OSC and RT and JACK

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>>
>>> 3) I found the source to OSCx on SourceForge, but it looks ancient  
>>> (i.e. from 2002), which includes it's own statically-linked (and  
>>> very old) version of libosc. Is that really the latest release?  
>>> I'm thrilled that PD makes working with MIDI so easy, but I am  
>>> going to want to use OSC too.

>> This part of your post really confuses me.  The OSCx stuff works quite
>> well.  Why is it a problem that the code is "old"?

probably because it is not maintained but buggy?

>> By the way there is a "new" OSC implementation in the "mrpeach"
>> folder, take a look if you are worried about OSCx.  For the record
>> though, I've been using sendOSC and dumpOSC for quite some time now
>> and they work very well.

i was fine with the OSCx objects, until i tried to send a big (not a
_really big_ message, just _big_) message and it crashed. see my bug
report on this.

> 
> Hey,
> 
> I am curious, does OSCx implement time tagging at all?   IIRC, that's  
> one of the advantages of mrpeach's OSC objects.

and that is another reason why mrpeach's objects are more interesting.


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