Re: [sc-users] Event Timing Offset

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 3, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Jeremy Zuckerman wrote:

> well you could use an OSCresponder.  OSCresponders send data from the 
> server to the client.

The problem with that approach is that getting values inside a routine 
usually requires synchronous operation--you ask for the value, and get 
it back before proceeding. Reading a value from a control bus is always 
asynchronous--you ask for the value, and you'll get it sometime later, 
but not right now. The trouble is that the routine can't wait for that 
value to come back. So it wouldn't work for what Esben is trying to do.

It's the same reason you can't do something like:

mySlider = SCSlider(...);
r = Routine({
   loop {
      // do something
      { mySlider.value }.defer.wait  // no dice here
   }
}).play;

-- because mySlider.value won't execute until after the .wait has run!

hjh

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