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** [patches:#528] Ability to dispatch messages from running Pd patches to
loaded tcl plugins**
**Status:** open
**Group:** feature
**Created:** Sun Jul 13, 2014 09:41 PM UTC by Chris McCormick
**Last Updated:** Sun Jul 13, 2014 09:41 PM UTC
**Owner:** Miller Puckette
To test this patch out once applied, place the attached tcl plugin
"test-dispatch-receiver-plugin.tcl" in ~/pd-externals/ and load the patch
"test-plugin-dispatch-receiver.pd" in Pd.
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This patch lets a user send a message from a running Pd patch to a loaded tcl
plugin. Plugins can register a receiver name to receive on with
::pd_connect::register_plugin_dispatch_receiver and patches can send to that
receiver with a message to "pd plugin-dispatch RNAME" where RNAME is the name
of the receiver registered by the tcl plugin.
Practical example: user could write an HTTP fetcher tcl plugin and have it
receive on the name "http-fetch". A patch could then send a request to the
plugin to fetch a web page using a Pd message like this:
[; pd plugin-dispatch http-fetch result_receiver_name http://mysite.com/(
The plugin could go away and do the fetch, process what it gets back, and then
send the result back to result_receiver_name when done.
Along with ::pd_connect::pdsend on the tcl side this gives a two-way interface
from Pd patches to tcl plugins and back again.
This patch is also available on this git branch if you want to pull directly:
https://github.com/chr15m/pure-data/commits/plugin-dispatch-messages
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