Re: [sc-users] Freeing Previously Allocated Busses

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

I remembered later - there's also BusDict in my lib (ddwCommon I believe).

In emergencies, you can free specific indexes from the server's bus allocators.

// index could also be the first index in a multichannel bus

s.audioBusAllocator.free(index);

or

s.controlBusAllocator.free(firstBusIndex);

hjh

On May 6, 2009, at 5:36 PM, James Harkins wrote:

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM,  <koonce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is the simplest way of freeing all allocated busses from a previous,

terminated process? Sudden termination leaves no record of the allocated

bus objects, so I can't see how to free them.

Similarly, is there a way to list the currently assigned/allocated busses

so  that I may then free them?

Nope. It's the user's responsibility to track them.

This kind of issue is exactly why I wrote PR/BP in the ddwChucklib

quark. There, you have a Process object that encompasses both the

behavior AND any resources it uses (including buses). Terminating the

process doesn't kill the process (remove it from memory) -- you

explicitly free it, and at that time, the process removes its

resources.

Processes are kept in a global collection for you so it's a lot harder

to lose track of them.

PR/BP is a pretty open framework with lots of options, but the basic

principles are simple.

: H. James Harkins

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