[LAU] A list of available OSC parameters?

[Bengt Gördén]

söndag 23 september 2007 22:36 skrev Arnold Krille:
> Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Ken Restivo:
> > Does OSC support "reflection"? i.e., is there any way in OSC to
> > interrogate a device and get back a list of all available parameters that
> > the device supports?
>
> OSC is connectionless, at least if the implementation uses udp as the
> transport-protocol (which most do). So there is no real way to even return
> values. Most apps send return-values to the host/port the query came from,
> but if that fails or is not handled (as the current state of ofqf...),
> nothing really happens.

If OSC ain't waiting for return packets it's not UDP:s fault. You specify 
destination _and_ source port in UDP just like in TCP. Ergo. You state your 
port that you are going to receive on. So. There's a real way to return 
traffic.


/bengan