[PD] Re: [jmax] controlling jMax from the Web and from PureData

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On 18 Feb 2003, Patrice Tisserand wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:15, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > controlling jMax from the Web and from PureData
> > I created a new class "ruby_udpsend" that is an emulation of jMax's
> > "udpsend". Which means you can send messages from PureData to jMax.
> > I create an objectbox "ruby_udpsend localhost 2042" in PureData. Then I
> > create an objectbox "udpreceive 2042" in jMax. Then messages i send to
> > ruby_udpsend will be catched by jMax.
> Wow, it seems very nice.

> udpreceive object is not available in jMax 4.0.1. But we have fixed it
> in current CVS. I will try your pd object in few days.

Interesting. BTW udpsend/udpreceive are essential objects for our
interactive installations.

> By the way, it seems that I can't compile gridflow with jMax 4.0.1,
> but you want some help to fix compilation of gridflow with jMax 4.0.1 ?
> I didn't know ruby but I know FTS api ;)

Look in the "base" directory. You will see two files called
"bridge_jmax.c" and "bridge_puredata.c". Each of those files is compiled
into a jMax-2.5 package and a PureData external respectively. What those
two do is translate messages from jMax/PD to Ruby and back, with special
cases for "init" and "delete".

What you need to do is create a "bridge_jmax4.c" file that would be pretty
much like "bridge_jmax.c" except that it would work with jMax 4. Another
thing to do is to change the "configure"/"Makefile.gf" files to honor your
new code (I can help you with that). Apart from that, no code is dependent
on jMax at all.

So if you want to give it a try, send me mail about your progress and
obstacles.

À la prochaine.

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Mathieu Bouchard                       http://artengine.ca/matju