[PD] netclient/netserver mangling messages

[Olaf Matthes]

Hi Hans-Christoph,

does this error appear at all 'speeds' or is it getting worse the more
data you send? I once had a similar problem with netcient dropping /
'manipulating' data when I was sending too fast.

There is a 

#define DEFPOLLTIME 20  /* check for input every 20 ms */

in the code which means netclient polls for input every 20 ms using a
clock. This should probably be changed to a lower value. Or to make it
really perfect, use sys_addpollfn and friends to let Pd poll for input.
But I don't have time right now to code this...

The rest of the code is pretty much identical to the netsend /
netreceive code. Does it happen as well in case you use these objects?

hope this helps,
Olaf

Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
> 
> I am using netserver/netclient to send list of info that has been
> converted to a symbol using [list2symbol].  Somewhere in the process,
> some of the messages get chopped up at seemingly random points.  The
> examples below only break at spaces, but sometimes it will break in the
> middle of the first work (i.e. mo tion).
> 
> I think the problem is on the [netclient] end because sometimes, one
> computer will work fine, and the other will chop up the messages.  The
> patches are attached.  They use Krzysztof Czaja's [tot] and zexy's
> [list2symbol].