[OSC_dev] Fwd: Application Profiles: oscplanet

[Jamie Bullock]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 09:45 +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Tue, December 23, 2008 08:09, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:41 PM,  <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> Why would /reply_to need a . before it ? It is just a normal command,
> >> its
> >> not a meta-operation on other nodes.
> >>
> >
> > Yes and no: yes, it's not a meta method, but no it's not an app
> > method: it's used for communication setup and might as well live in
> > the zeroconf part.
> >
> > I need to start implementing something that works and will use
> > "/.reply_to" instead of "/reply_to" so that all commands related to
> > the protocol live in "/.xxx" but this could be changed later to some
> > namespace if it's better. This is a draft.
> >
> >> As I have pointed out several times now, this is ambiguous. Are you
> >> setting /midout/channel to 4.5, or are you querying the value of
> >> /midout/channel,4.5 ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Again, this is a limitation of libosc and we should not create a
> > protocol that depends on the weirdnesses of particular
> > implementations. In your case, it's obvious that you need to use what
> > urls are made for: give a unique location for an object in the system:
> >
> > /clip/start 100 3456
> >
> > should be
> >
> > /clip/100/start 3456
> >
> > or
> >
> > /clip.100/start 3456
> >
> > or
> >
> > /clip/current/start 3456
> >
> > Because if the 100th clip has methods, it deserves an url. The osc
> > urls are made to avoid indexing everywhere. We are doing some kind of
> > exception with the meta methods that "index" on urls, but they are not
> > used in a running application: they are used during setup.
> >
> > Gaspard
> 
> 
> As I said, I would like to do this ! How do I create a path with variables
> in it ? oscpack is out for me, since it is C++ only, so this leaves just
> liblo I think.
> 

Well liblo is great! I've found it to be rock-solid, and the threaded
server is a really nicely designed.

I'm pretty certain it can do what you want, Steve?

Jamie

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