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

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
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>> day 5 wrote:
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>>> On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:43 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
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>>>> In fact I think the whole OSC external thing needs to be rethought.
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>>> why not just implement a wrapper to liblo ?
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>> Investigating further, I see that liblo can only send via UDP and  
>> UNIX sockets, not TCP. It handles its own sockets internally just  
>> like libOSC (the basis for sendOSC and dumpOSC in pd).
>> In pd, netsend and netreceive can do TCP as well. OSC is supposed  to 
>> work on 'any' protocol, but AFAIK it hasn't been implemented on  MIDI 
>> or RS232 or USB, probably for lack of interest. At least a TCP  
>> implementation would be useful for those who need guaranteed  
>> delivery of packets.
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> CCRMA at Stanford University has a limited version of OSC on serial  
> called dumpOSCSerial.  I never found the code, just hte binary.   
> Ideally, there would be a Pd OSC lib that had no transport built in.   
> Then you could choose your transport.  That makes things much more  
> flexible.
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> .hc
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I agree. If there were objects called [OSCpack] and [OSCunpack] that 
worked analogously to [pack] and [unpack] they would output and input 
data in OSC binary format, I suppose as a list of floats in pd-land.

Martin