On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 13:49 +0100, João Pais wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to test the rate/stability of the osc packages I am sending from Pd (around 3 packages every 40 ms) with another program outside Pd. Does anyone have any good sugestions for a programm (or even console utility) that can display the timings between the messages received on the port I'm sending to? I'm using XP and ubuntu (I guess the later one is more suited for this).
I was also thinking of creating a "control tester" like a Pd patch that saves a click to an audio file every time a message is received. But that would still be inside Pd, so I don't know how precise it would be.
Do you assume it to be less precise in Pd? You could have a separate instance of Pd for the testing suite, then it wouldn't be 'still inside Pd'. Also, recording a click on each received message to a sound file would definitely be possible, but wouldn't it be a bit cumbersome to read it out? Wouldn't it be more feasible to write timestamps taken with [timer] or [realtime] to a text file with [textfile]?
Roman