[PD] netclient/netserver mangling messages

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 16:39 America/New_York, Olaf Matthes wrote:

> 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.

This happened when the data got fast.  But it didn't need to be very 
fast to start happening.

> 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...

I tried #define DEFPOLLTIME 5 and that didn't seem to help.  I just 
hacked netclient.c to use sys_addpollfn, and unfortunately that didn't 
seem to help either.  (I attached my sys_addpollfn version of 
netclient).

> 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?

Unfortunately, I don't get this bug with netsend/netreceive at all.  I 
was trying to move quite fast on my patch, and I didn't get a single 
hiccup.  With netclient/netserver, I would have had many.  I'll start 
trying to debug it a little more, but any suggestions/etc would be 
helpful.

.hc

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> 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].
>
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