29 Aug
2004
29 Aug
'04
4:43 p.m.
hi all. I'm trying to find a more reliable way of starting pd on OSX from AppMain.tcl currently, I depend on pd being able to listen to the default port (5400). pd usually gets to bind to this port except if somebody else is using it. This can be detected in Tcl using netstat.
But if you quit pd, the port is unusable for some time and won't show up in netstat.
So It seems I need either a way to detect the usability of the port in Tcl (trying to make a server socket won't report any error) or a clean way for pd to tell the Tcl code which port it has picked
any advice on this would be welcome.
... gerard