Ah, yes, the good ole C64 days! Are the lights kept in sync? By a timer in your MacPerl code, or are they triggered by sound input levels, or by Midi, or what?
I hope you didn't include "sleep(1)" in your code. Are you trapping for other events besides "keyDown"? How often are you calling "WaitNextEvent"? If you show a little code it might help? David Seay http://www.mastercall.com/g-s/ >Yeeikes! No, actually, that's pretty cool. The downside is that my >lighting setup, which was previously completely stable apart from getting >occasionally off-tempo -- which was why I wanted key control -- has now >become, well, chaotic. The lights start moving vaguely independently, >though I've built in some recovery logic that eventually rights them. And >every once in a while, there's a panic, which will be completely >disastrous in a real-time setting. I can't see why this should happen, >due merely to the addition of event-trapping logic that seems relatively >self-contained...yet happen it does. I suspect I may need to heave a sigh >and accept that what I used to be able to accomplish with a simple "GET >A$" in my good ol' Commodore 64 days has become a Herculean challenge in >the Apple era. Yea, progress! > >Well, heck. My dancers can accept a few sync problems. Better that than >absolute darkness... > >s/(w)hee/$1ah/; >Ethan
