[LAU] A list of available OSC parameters?

[Lars Luthman]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 01:29 +0200, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> 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.

But not a reliable way if you are using UDP.


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