[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[Jamie Bullock]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:53 +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:

> I gave an example:
> 
> /foo/bar,5
> 
> - is ambiguous in my application, I could be setting the value of /foo/bar
> to 5, or requesting the value of /foo/bar,5

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean here. The comma is a
reserved character in OSC -- used for identifying the type-tag string,
so I'm not sure that '/foo/bar,5' is actually valid OSC... or maybe I'm
being a bit slow.

Jamie

> At first I also liked the idea of not having /get and /set, but the above
> problem became apparent when I tried to implement it.
> 
> 
> Also, having /get and /set is nice, you know immediately if /foo/bar is a
> property or a command, and if it is a property you also know whether it is
> readonly.
> 
> 
> Gabriel.
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