florian mosleh wrote:
Hello,
I already posted this to the forum, so I hope it's no foible to post it here as well...
I am building a connector for PD to communicate with an external application running on another system. I am using netsend to craft UDP packets that the remote application can parse for actions. The payload is supposed to look sort of like this: (STRING,STRING,INTEGER,INTEGER,STRING,INTEGER)
Initially I was unable to get commas into the netsend stream because PD uses commas as in internal delimiter. I was able to circumvent this by using the cyclone external's 'sprintf' function. Like this:
|44| | |send (STRING%cSTRING%cINTEGER%cINTEGER%cSTRING%cINTEGER) | | |netsend|
this almost works, except that pd inserts whitespace characters after the commas, which the remote application doesn't understand.
I noticed that 'print' actually puts a space before and after the commas, whereas netsend (or sprintf) only puts one after the commas.
Does anyone know how to circumvent this behavior? Or, perhaps a simpler way to achieve what I am trying to do?
If you're using pd-extended you could use [any2string] to convert to lists of (ASCII) floats and [udpsend] to send the list of floats. Also the [str] object might work as a way to convert symbols into lists of ASCII characters.
Martin