Yvan Vander Sanden wrote: > hi. > > I am currently working on an external that generates rhythmic pulses in > a certain way. But I was wondering if I could run into problems with > calling usleep in an external. Alternatively, I suppose i could use a pd > timer as an input and let it give a bang each milli-second, but that > doesn't seem like a good idea to me. > > I suppose externals are all separate threads, or am I wrong about that? > No they are all in the same thread as pd unless you start another thread inside the external. If you want your external to sleep you'll need to make a new thread, as in the tcpclient code.
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