OSCinit

OSCinit — Start a listening process for OSC messages to a particular port.

Description

Starts a listening process, which can be used by OSClisten.

Syntax

ihandle OSCinit iport

Initialization

ihandle -- handle returned that can be passed to any number of OSClisten opcodes to receive messages on this port.

iport -- the port on which to listen.

Performance

The listener runs in the background. See OSClisten for details.

Example

The example shows a pair of floating point numbers being received on port 7770.

sr = 44100
ksmps = 100
nchnls = 2

gihandle OSCinit 7770

  instr   1
    kf1 init 0
    kf2 init 0
nxtmsg:
    kk  OSClisten gihandle, "/foo/bar", "ff", kf1, kf2
if (kk == 0) goto ex
    printk 0,kf1
    printk 0,kf2
    kgoto nxtmsg
ex:
  endin
        

See Also

OSClisten, OSCsend

More information on this opcode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1C3TqP_9Y , made by Andrés Cabrera

Credits

Author: John ffitch
2005