package provide pd_connect 0.1 namespace eval ::pd_connect:: { variable pd_socket variable cmds_from_pd "" namespace export to_pd namespace export create_socket namespace export pdsend } # TODO figure out how to escape { } properly proc ::pd_connect::configure_socket {sock} { fconfigure $sock -blocking 0 -buffering none -encoding utf-8; fileevent $sock readable {::pd_connect::pd_readsocket} } # if pd opens first, it starts pd-gui, then pd-gui connects to the port pd sent proc ::pd_connect::to_pd {port {host localhost}} { variable pd_socket ::pdwindow::debug "'pd-gui' connecting to 'pd' on localhost $port ...\n" if {[catch {set pd_socket [socket $host $port]}]} { puts stderr "WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port $host:$port." after 1000 ::pd_connect::to_pd $port $host return } ::pd_connect::configure_socket $pd_socket } # if pd-gui opens first, it creates socket and requests a port. The function # then returns the portnumber it receives. pd then connects to that port. proc ::pd_connect::create_socket {} { if {[catch {set sock [socket -server ::pd_connect::from_pd -myaddr localhost 0]}]} { puts stderr "ERROR: failed to allocate port, exiting!" exit 3 } return [lindex [fconfigure $sock -sockname] 2] } proc ::pd_connect::from_pd {channel clientaddr clientport} { variable pd_socket $channel ::pdwindow::debug "Connection from 'pd' to 'pd-gui' on $clientaddr:$clientport\n" ::pd_connect::configure_socket $pd_socket } # send a pd/FUDI message from Tcl to Pd. This function aims to behave like a # [; message( in Pd or pdsend on the command line. Basically, whatever is in # quotes after the proc name will be sent as if it was sent from a message box # with a leading semi-colon. proc ::pd_connect::pdsend {message} { variable pd_socket append message \; if {[catch {puts $pd_socket $message} errorname]} { puts stderr "pdsend errorname: >>$errorname<<" error "Not connected to 'pd' process" } } proc ::pd_connect::pd_readsocket {} { variable pd_socket variable cmds_from_pd if {[eof $pd_socket]} { # if we lose the socket connection, that means pd quit, so we quit close $pd_socket exit } append cmds_from_pd [read $pd_socket] if {[string index $cmds_from_pd end] ne "\n" || \ ![info complete $cmds_from_pd]} { # the block is incomplete, wait for the next block of data return } else { set docmds $cmds_from_pd set cmds_from_pd "" if {![catch {uplevel #0 $docmds} errorname]} { # we ran the command block without error, reset the buffer } else { # oops, error, alert the user: global errorInfo switch -regexp -- $errorname { "missing close-brace" { ::pdwindow::fatal \ [concat [_ "(Tcl) MISSING CLOSE-BRACE '\}': "] $errorInfo "\n"] } "^invalid command name" { ::pdwindow::fatal \ [concat [_ "(Tcl) INVALID COMMAND NAME: "] $errorInfo "\n"] } default { ::pdwindow::fatal \ [concat [_ "(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: "] $errorInfo "\n"] } } } } }