client server version

[Mark Danks]

  All of the talk about a true client/server model, especially without a
GUI is something that I'm very interested in.  As any one who has tried
to do an audio and graphics patch knows, you basically can't run audio
Pd and GEM at the same time.  In the past, I've gotten around it by
using two machines, but it is a real drag.

  In theory, I'm getting a dual-processor box in the near future and one
thing that I want to do is make it so that it is easy to run two
instances of Pd at the same time...and have them talk to each other
(probably netsend to start with).

  Also, it should be fairly easy to remove the GUI part.  You would need
to write a new "front end", since pd.exe immediatedly calls pd.dll.
Instead of calling sys_main and sys_startgui, you would need to provide
the "hooks" for the pd.dll to send the data, but then don't ever do
anything with that data.  On NT, for instance, sys_startgui connects to
wish80 with a pipe and sends the data that way.  By rewriting some of
the functions in s_inter.c, it would be simple to get rid of the
gui...if my ramblings made any sense...

Later, Mark

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-- Mark Danks
-- mdanks at stormfront.com
-- http://www.danks.org/mark
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