[PD] [announce] netsend / netreceive for Max <-> Pd communication

Pall Thayer palli at pallit.lhi.is
Thu Jul 10 02:27:49 CEST 2003


That is really cool. I see it as making collaborating with Max users alot 
easier. I look forward to trying it out.

Pall


On Wednesday 09 July 2003 23:49, Olaf Matthes wrote:
> okay, to avoid any confusion: in Pd's help patch for netsend some Max
> objects called 'netsend' and 'netreceive' are mentioned (the link given
> there does not work any longer...). These objects are different from the
> ones I made and here is what's actually different:
> - they only support UDP
> - they only send messages consisting of <symbol> <float>
> - the 'syntax' (i.e. how the patch has to look like) is different from
> how it is done in Pd
>
> With my objects I've tried to stick as close as possible to the Pd
> objects (but I don't support the 'old' flag....). So everything you see
> in the help patches for Pd can be done exactly the same way in Max.
> But the text in the netreceive help patch from Pd 0.36 still states
> "Incoming network messages appear in 'receive' objects;" This is no
> longer true (unless the 'old' flag is set to explicitly switch back to
> this old mode).
>
> To send messages of arbitrary length, the following (using 'l2s' from
> zexy) should work:
>
> [your list of arbitrary length with 23 floats and probably symbols]
>
> [l2s]
>
> [send $1]
>
> [netsend]
>
> By converting a list to a symbol it shrinks down to a constant length of
> always one symbol, regardless the original list length. netreceive will
> unpack it into a list again before sending it through it's outlet.
>
> Olaf
>
> jose manuel berenguer schrieb:
> > hello
> >
> > as far as i know, netsend and netreceive work with lists ... i
> > haven't tested the limit of length, but if you send the message, say,
> >
> > (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
> >
> > and you connect the left outlet of netreceive to a print object  you
> > will see the list 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 on the terminal
> >
> > if you connect this left outlet to a message (set $1), and the outlet
> > of this message to an empty message box, you will get 0
> >
> > if you connect it to a message (set $1 $2), you will get  0 1
> >
> > (set $1 $2 $3) will give 0 1 2, and so on...until $9...
> >
> > if you connect the left outlet of netreceive to an unpack object you
> > will retrieve all integers sent...
> >
> > if you start the list by a symbol, you can retrieve it by forcing
> > unpack to process a symbol (s) in its first analyzed atom
> >
> > if you place a symbol in any other place of your outgoing list, you
> > should also inform unpack about the position...
> >
> > the list fuu 4 4 4 fiii
> >
> > should be read by unpack s 0 0 0 s.
> >
> > you need, indeed, connect outlets 1 and 5 to symbol boxes...
> >
> > in max, you need only connect the left outlet of netreceive to a
> > prepend set object connected to an empty message box...
> >
> > jmb
> >
> > >I remember some time ago I tried a pd netsend/netreceive object for Max
> > > and it would only accept single element messages, for instance, 3 64;
> > > would be accepted as just 3. Is this object you're talking about a
> > > different one that will accept messages with multiple elements?
> > >
> > >Pall
> > >
> > >sjs
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