[PD] messages to messagebox

[Bryan Jurish]

Greetings all,

On 9 December 2002 at 17:10:31, IOhannes zmoelnig wrote:
 > kristof lauwers wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I'm trying to control PD from another app over UDP, connecting a 
 > > netreceive to a messagebox.
 > > Now i thought that, if i have a message with
 > > 
 > > ;
 > > $1 $2
 > > 
 > > (cfr. patch below)
 > > 
 > > i could send for example "testrecv 10", and a receive named testrecv 
 > > would receive the number.  i found out that for some reason you need to 
 > > send "foo testrecv 10" in stead..
 > > can anyone tell me why?  -  what's happening to the foo?

[snip]
 > furthermore, it might turn out dangerous to allow sends to every 
 > receive, because anybody can send you something like "pd quit" (which 
 > might not be what you want)

<plug src="shameless">
if it is however what you want, and if you might have other messages
with varying lengths and/or type-distributions, you can always use 
'sprinkler':
</plug>

|testrecv 10(
    |
[sprinkler]


[r testrecv]
    |
   [10\

... marmosets,
    Bryan

ps - sprinkler is in cvs, otherwise available from me
at http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd.