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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:04 PM Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> It's a surprise ;-) Will share it hopefully soon.

Intriguing!

-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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> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 15:31 Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> > > School of Performing Arts – 0141
>> > > Blacksburg, VA 24061
>> > > (540) 231-6139
>> > > ico at vt.edu
>> > >
>> > > www.icat.vt.edu
>> > > www.performingarts.vt.edu
>> > > l2ork.icat.vt.edu
>> > > ico.bukvic.net
>> > >
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