I am planning on adding rendezvous functionality to Pd and I am wondering what the best approach is.
(Rendezvous is the impromptu networking system best known for what
Apple is doing with it on iChat, iTunes, etc. It is an outgrowth of
"Zero Configuration" aka Zeroconf. It is basically a way of
advertising services that your machine offers on a local network
automatically.)
I was originally thinking that it would probably make sense to just make a separate object for this. But it might make sense to incorporate it into [netserver] and [netreceive] since they are the objects that are actually providing service (in the form of opening the actual port) which Rendezvous would be advertising .
Thoughts, comments?
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Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I was originally thinking that it would probably make sense to just make a separate object for this. But it might make sense to incorporate it into [netserver] and [netreceive] since they are the objects that are actually providing service (in the form of opening the actual port) which Rendezvous would be advertising .
Thought/comment: Generally I'm convinced, that OSC offers much better funcionality than netsend/netreceive and has the added plus, that it can speak with other applications like Reaktor or so.
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Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
On Wednesday, Mar 10, 2004, at 12:01 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I was originally thinking that it would probably make sense to just make a separate object for this. But it might make sense to incorporate it into [netserver] and [netreceive] since they are the objects that are actually providing service (in the form of opening the actual port) which Rendezvous would be advertising .
Thought/comment: Generally I'm convinced, that OSC offers much better funcionality than netsend/netreceive and has the added plus, that it can speak with other applications like Reaktor or so.
That may true, and I have thought a bit about using OSC, but [netserver] makes handling multiple network connections very easy, so that's most important to me. Plus I haven't gotten OSC running on MacOSX yet, though I can't say I've tried much.
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