[fluxus] from-osc vrs. osc-msg

[alejo.duque]

nick, david thanks lots for your answers, many things to learn from
them. merci )
/a


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:04, nik gaffney wrote:
> hi alejo
> 
> > could anyone comment on how to avoid making a mess when sending a lot of
> > data from pd2fluxus?
> 
> depends what you mean by alot.
>   but i use an aproach something like this.. ,
> 
> (define (osc-repl)
>   (if (osc-msg "/code")
>       (eval-string (osc-peek)))
>   (if (osc-msg "/ping")
>       (begin (display "ping... ")
>              (newline)))
>   (if (osc-msg "/speed")
>         (set! speed (osc 0)))
>   (if (osc-msg "/spin")
>         (set! spin (osc 0)))
>   ;; etc++
>   ;;  probaly cleaner using 'case'
> 
> which uses global variables, accessable by any functions in the fluxus
> script. (yeah i know its not really schemisch, . but.. .) so from pd, just
> send /speed 34.6 with the idea being that you only adjust paramters that you
> choose to expose. its easier to keep track of than a huge long list, with
> position information becoming semantic.
> 
> > 2nd question(related to a fluxus patch) -this patch contains the "#"
> > character, i havent seen it before and when i delete it everthing breaks,
> > i will like to understand its use since in this particular patch i see i
> > cannot replace nay of those values by a (osc X) kindda value
> 
> the sexp #(1 2 3) is roughly (vector 1 2 3) but does not get evaluated, so
> something like #(x y z) is not (vector x y z).   reader macro?!
> 
> for general info about scheme programming (in particular guile) have a look
> at these refs. ,
>  http://schemers.org/
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs.html
> 
> > 3rd Q
> > -can one add comments to the code? i have tryed few characters: / - # and
> > 
> > \ but havent found the right one, is commenting fluxus code possible?
> > it could be a nice to have "live commentaries" as in "live news" or is it
> 
> use one or more ; characters.   (its only really an issue as to how many you
> use, if yr editor does autoindenting for you. )
> 
> nik
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