[chuck-users] Question about OSC and Network Connections

[Mike McGonagle]

Hi all,

I was in the process of testing some code that I have that is using
OSC, and in these tests, I got an error from ChucK saying that a port
was busy and it could not connect. This was because I had another
process running (dumpOSC from the OSC site) on that port. This seems
normal in that ChucK complained about this. My trouble is that once I
stopped the dumpOSC process, ChucK still would not connect to that
port AND it didn't give any warnings or error messages saying that it
would not connect. The only way that I was able to connect was to
restart ChucK. I am not quite positive if just restarting the Compiler
(using miniAudicle [latest]) would have been enough, as I restarted
the whole program. Once I did this, my code worked fine.

Is there a way that ChucK could be made to NOT fail when these things
happen? It seems to me that this would be in line with the "on the
fly" concept. I would think that ChucK should be able to detect, at
any time, if a port was in use or not, and return the appropriate
error message, or connect if it is unused.

Thanks,

Mike


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