PackOSC and typetags

Reply to PackOSC and typetags on Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:33:55 GMT

rmele76 — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:33:55 GMT

Hello PD users,
I am using the MrPeach objects with PD-extended on OSX. I would like to Pack an OSC message that has two type tags, in this case a string and a boolean true.

sendtyped /set sT input 1 mute
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packOSC
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udpsend

The message above is what I am sending to the packOSC object. The packOSC is reporting the message "Tag count does not match message count." For my use case I would like to have the string "input 1 mute" counted as one type tag and not a separate type tag for each individual word.

Any suggestions on how I can reformat my sendtyped message to actually get an OSC message that fits the listed type tags, One string and one boolean true.

Thanks in advance

Reply to PackOSC and typetags on Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:37:33 GMT

Maelstorm — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:37:33 GMT

You have three variables here: a string, int (or boolean), and another string. You can't really expect to get two from three.

Reply to PackOSC and typetags on Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:54:30 GMT

rmele76 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:54:30 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

Often with OSC messages you can include several words inside of one larger string message.

For my use case the 1 in "input 1 mute" refers to a channel number and not a boolean mute state. The type tag "T" or "F" handles that. So for me my goal is to have the packOSC object handle "input 1 mute" as one message and not three separate messages.

In MAX/MSP I would accomplish this by surrounding the input 1 mute message in quotes. So "input 1 mute" would get type cast as one single string with the spaces counted as characters.

I understand PD is not MAX I am just using that as an example, hopefully there is an equivalent way with PD.

Reply to PackOSC and typetags on Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:30:03 GMT

Maelstorm — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:30:03 GMT

Ah, okay. I misread your post. You can use [zexy/list2symbol] to convert a list of three atoms into one symbol.

[input 1 mute(
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<-- because messages that don't start with a number
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[zexy/list2symbol]
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[sendtyped /set sT $1(

Reply to PackOSC and typetags on Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:48:15 GMT

rmele76 — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:48:15 GMT

Your suggestion has resolved my issue, thanks for the help Maelstorm.