[L2Ork-dev] Creating a unique identifier for each pd client

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Btw-- what are you building?

-Jonathan

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:58 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:22 PM Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Any ideas on how to generate a unique ID to each client without manual
> > user interaction and in a way that is platform-agnostic? I imagine one
> > could leverage client's network MAC address or unique computer
> > identifier but am unaware of how this can be retrieved in an OS-agnostic
> > way inside pd-l2ork/purr-data.
>
> If you have a centralized server then the server can go the same route as
> the implementation of dollarsign zero and increment a global var for each
> new client.
>
> If the client needs to generate the id themselves then you can have each
> client use a random number generator to assign themselves an ID.
>
> There's also an ID buried in each installation of Chromium that is unique
> for that installation. (One of many good reasons I start Purr Data with a
> flag to Chromium that ties it to a chair and duck tapes its mouth shut. :)
>
> -Jonathan
>
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Ico
> >
> > --
> > Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> > Director, Creativity + Innovation
> > Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
> >
> > Virginia Tech
> > Creative Technologies in Music
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> > ico at vt.edu
> >
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