[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[Nicholas J Humfrey]

> OSC is at a lower level than OMC. OMC is a syntax on top of OSC.
> OSC describes how to communicate, OMC describes what to communicate.

I think your statement answers a lot of the confusion. I hadn't seen  
it as a layer on top of OSC.


> Now I try to add a method "aaa/#info" to container /foo and libOSC  
> will
> not allow me to, since "/" is not allowed in a method name.

I think this belongs in the library itself, not the application.


> However, there is some code in libOSC which does something when a  
> message
> ends in a "/". I am not exactly sure what it does, I think it  
> returns part
> of the tree, but I would rather have the control to filter what  
> exactly is
> returned.

It is probably implementing part of Andy Schmeder's "A Query System  
for Open Sound Control".


nick.