Damian Stewart wrote: > hey, > > i'm trying to use oscSend to send some numeric data to another application. > > basically i've got a float between 0 and 1. the receiving application > unpacks the packet, assuming it's a float. the problem is, oscSend packs 0 > and 1 as an int, but 0.000001 - 0.9999999 as a float. so on the receiving > end i have to check if the type is an int or a float and unpack it > accordingly. > > i assume this is either caused by - the way pd passes around numbers > internally, or - the way oscSend interprets incoming numbers. > > is there any simple workaround? > > PD uses floats internally. oscSend tries makes ints out of floats which are equal to their integer representation A simple workaround is to add a tiny offset to the numbers and subtract it on the other end. I think it's better to use the mrpeach osc objects; you can force the type of the arguments of [packOSC] to be float.
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