[PD] Send Key Commands to PD w/ -nogui without X (from console)

[Jack]

Le 14/03/2013 21:38, me.grimm a écrit :
> hey! that was pretty brilliant!
>
> now w/ -stderr also prints to terminal:
>
> (pd -nogui -stderr -open netreceive-help.pd &); sleep 5 && pdsend 3000
>
>> Maybe there's a shell guru here who can tell you how to wrap it up in
>> a script that automatically sends messages on each keydown event. :)
> yes!
>
> m
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> From: me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
>>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: James Dunn <james at 4thharmonic.com>; pd_list Listserve <pd-list at iem.at>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 3:47 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [PD] Send Key Commands to PD w/ -nogui without X (from console)
>>>
>>>>  3) the 'pdsend' program waits for FUDI input
>>> this might be the best solution for now until i take a look into the
>>> shell scripting you suggested. although, how to make it all on one
>>> line (one command). Variations in this:
>>>
>>> megrimm-mbp:~ megrimm$ (pd -open netreceive-help.pd &) ; (pdsend 3000)
>>>
>>> fail or me.
>> I don't understand networking very well, but it looks like the netreceive
>> has to bind to the port first, and I think your script only waits until pd
>> process sucessfully starts (i.e., doesn't wait for it to load the patch) before
>> doing 'pdsend'.
>>
>> Quick and dirty:
>> (pd -open netreceive-help.pd &); sleep 5 && pdsend 3000
>>
>> That way pdsend waits five seconds before executing, and the patch
>> should be loaded by then.
>>
>> Maybe there's a shell guru here who can tell you how to wrap it up in
>> a script that automatically sends messages on each keydown event. :)
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>
>
Hello,

Something like :
$ pd send "startup A B C" /path/to/your/patch.pd
should work if you have somewhere in your patch.pd a [r startup].
++

Jack