17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
12:16 a.m.
Yvan Vander Sanden wrote:
hi.
I am currently working on an external that generates rhythmic pulses in a certain way. But I was wondering if I could run into problems with calling usleep in an external. Alternatively, I suppose i could use a pd timer as an input and let it give a bang each milli-second, but that doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I suppose externals are all separate threads, or am I wrong about that?
No they are all in the same thread as pd unless you start another thread inside the external. If you want your external to sleep you'll need to make a new thread, as in the tcpclient code.
Martin