Thanks everyone. Yeah, I did think of using osc to make some kind of message passing protocal, but also wondered if that would get restrictive. Wow, this thread gives me a lot to think about.

Paul, would it be practical/possible to have the python process allowed to read the shared memory only? Does that simplify the locking problems, or not really? I could imagine that I could do what I want pretty well by doing read-copy-send messages back to engine. But obviously some of you have thought a lot harder about this.

thanks

iain

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@gmail.com> wrote:

Paul C,

I seem to remeber getting into Jack programming using a Jack module for python... just looked it up from my backup of programming projects, "pyjack" is the name of the module, i was using version 0.1 at the time. It allows capture / playback of "standard" python arrays of floats.

Project is currently located at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/py-jack/files/py-jack/ and is at version 0.5.2.

HTH, -Harry