Hello!
On 03/08/18 14:00, Billy Stiltner wrote:
Thanks for this Chris, Have yet to try out pd-ws but it might be a bit simpler for me to plug in place of Nicolas' websockets for my browser interface to xensynth
It is basically the same but with no binary dependencies, and it only supports one active websocket at a time.
https://ia601201.us.archive.org/34/items/xensynth/xesynthcontrol/xensynthcon...
Lovely!
xensynthcontrol.html is just a bunch of high level stuff that was easier to do with html javascript than patching up in pd ,
Yes, I understand. This is exactly the reason for pd-ws.
JAVA applets were the only cross platform solution to sockets from browser to pd as far as I knew. Will websockets last as long as JAVA applets did? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1216281
Java, like Flash, always felt like it was crowbarred into the browser. My hunch is that websockets will be around for a long time. They have wide support across all browsers and the people who maintain the browser code wrote the websocket code, unlike Java & Flash.
If xensynthcontrol.html is built only for your personal use you could also look at browser extensions. I believe it's possible to open native socket connections (directly to e.g. [netreceive]) if your Javascript code is running as an extension/add-on.
Cheers,
Chris.