Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

I am trying to write a patch that dynamically assigns [netreceive] port numbers but I can't think of anyway to get the dynamically generated port# to be a creation message so that I can use [netreceive $1].

Any suggestions would be very helpful,

.hc

hi

to be honest, i do not really understand what you want.

1. currently there is no possibility to change the port# dynamically.

i do not really know why (well, of course, it might leave a non-functioning patch, when trying to assign a port# already in use)

2. you can use [netreceive $1]

however, this is not very dynamically

3. you can generate a patch with a fixed port#.

i've attached an example that i often use

mfg.cas.er IOhannes

#N canvas 432 316 765 296 10; #N canvas 611 170 349 481 creator 0; #X msg 165 69 bang; #X obj 101 122 t b b; #X obj 101 320 pack s 0; #X obj 153 165 select 0; #X obj 153 231 f 8086; #X obj 101 274 f $0; #X obj 153 143 f $2; #X obj 153 209 select 0; #X obj 153 187 f $1; #X msg 101 339 ; $1 obj 100 100 netreceive $2 1 ; $1 connect 2 0 0 0; #X obj 101 297 makefilename %d_core; #X obj 101 69 loadbang; #X obj 101 101 once; #X connect 0 0 12 0; #X connect 1 0 5 0; #X connect 1 1 6 0; #X connect 2 0 9 0; #X connect 3 0 8 0; #X connect 3 1 4 0; #X connect 4 0 2 1; #X connect 5 0 10 0; #X connect 6 0 3 0; #X connect 7 0 4 0; #X connect 7 1 4 0; #X connect 8 0 7 0; #X connect 10 0 2 0; #X connect 11 0 12 0; #X connect 12 0 1 0; #X restore 127 91 pd creator; #X obj 47 113 outlet; #N canvas 408 447 410 192 core 0; #X obj 100 126 outlet; #X obj 259 32 namecanvas $0_core; #X restore 47 91 pd core; #X text 48 6 this is a [netreceive] object , that uses only UDP.; #X text 11 26 creation: "udpreceive [<defaultport> [<port>]]"; #X text 315 68 by default we listen to port 8086; #X text 315 86 if you supply a <defaultport> this will be used instead of 8086; #X text 314 115 if a <port> is existent too , this will be used instead of the <defaultport>; #X text 298 196 [udpreceive] == [netreceive 8086 1]; #X text 200 214 [udpreceive <defaultport>] == [netreceive <defaultport> 1]; #X text 150 233 [udpreceive <defaultport> <port>] == [netreceive <port> 1]; #X connect 2 0 1 0;