On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 19:50 +0100, Andrew Faraday wrote:
I've recently been looking at possibilities for networked performance with pd. So far I've found that [netsend] and [netrecieve] only seem to take numeric data (I.E. no symbols or bangs). This might be the result of the abstraction I'm using (made by one of my workshoppers) which sends messages with through a message box [send chan1 $1(, [send chan2 $1( etc.
I've solved the bangs problem by sending a number repeatedly and having a [sel] at the receiving end. However I am interested in using netsend as a basic messaging system (to conduct a laptop group by typing from a central machine).
this lets you send whatever you want:
[list prepend send] | [list trim] | [netsend]
Using [netclient] and [netserver] from maxlib instead of the native [netsend] and [netreceive] might make the implementation of one-to-many or many-to-one setups easier.
I often found myself using something like this in order to easily send messages from any client to all others:
- on the client side (multiple instances) -
[list prepend send] | [list trim] | [netclient]
- on the server -
[r broadcast] | [list prepend broadcast] | [list trim] | [netserver 9999] | [list] | [s broadcast]
Roman