On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Miller Puckette wrote:
Sorry, no way to override the "5400" (there ought to be one!)... also, you'l have a surprise when oyu run "open" and "save" dialogs: they see files on the GUI machine but Pd will then try to read or write on the other one!
I was surprised to see the files on my desktop machine indeed. I'll setup a homonymous nfs filesharing, I think that will avoid this issue cleanly.
I've used this feature only once so far. It might turn out to be useful for running Pd on PDAs and such.
...and XBOX'es. My XBOX is happily running pd, pdp, webcam input, audio output and fullscreen tv pdp output, without a keyboard or mouse attached, while the gui is on my desktop. Running X across the net is also possible, but less efficient I guess. And I'd get the pdp output at the wrong display.
Would it be possible to suspend and resume pd-gui connections? So that a pd keeps running when something happens to the network. Or have multiple pd-gui's talking to one pd-engine for collaborative remote work on pd-LAN-parties? I tried running a 2nd instance of pd-gui, but it shows up dead. Anyway it's just an idea. "-guicmd" is very useful as-is for me.
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