[PD] Re: [PD-dev] We've got to undo the MIDI revolution! - Where isOSC?!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:50:43AM +0100, pd-list-request at iem.at  
> wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:09:53 +0000
>> From: cdr <ix at replic.net>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Re: [PD-dev] We've got to undo the MIDI revolution!
>> 	- Where	isOSC?!
>> To: pd-list at iem.at
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>>> As far as I can tell, all that would be needed to acheive this is an
>>> object called [stol] (symbol to list) in Pd canonical. This  
>>> object is
>>> like Perl's "split" function and it would take a character (such  
>>> as "/")
>>> as it's first argument. Then you could just go:
>>>
>>> [netrecieve myport 1]
>>> |
>>> [list split 1]
>>> |           |
>>> [stol /]    |
>>> |           |
>>> |           |
>>> |           [...list split or route value bits here...]
>>> |
>>> [...list split or route path bits here...]
>>>
>>>
>>> Sending OSC udp packets to myport. N'est pas?
>>
>> i dont think that will work..OSC is encoded a specific way, using  
>> a typetag and combinations of various kinds of big endian numbers  
>> and ASCII text, zero padding to byte boundaries to delimit  
>> messages/message-components (the typetags and path are treated as  
>> a string). netsend uses ASCII text for everything and uses ";" to  
>> delimit..
>>
>> see http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/OSC-spec- 
>> examples.html
>>
>> its simple to implement, but impossible to implement in PD, as a  
>> patch...since you cant stream 'bytes' around the way you can  
>> floats or symbols or lists...
>
> You are quite correct. My apologies for highlighting my ignorance  
> quite
> so lucidly!
>
> In this case, I think it would be a good idea to try and get the OSC
> objects that everyone is using into Miller's Pd. Why write new ones
> using liblo when there are ones that already work?
>

The OSC objects are already in Pd-extended.  So you can use that  
while you are waiting for Miller to include OSC into core.

.hc

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