lo.h(3)

✨ lo.h ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the manual page for lo.h, the liblo header, from the Library Functions Manual. It's the main headerfile plus the high-level API, and yes it's giving "I contain multitudes" — addresses, blobs, sends, version info, the whole vibe 🌈

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lo.h — that's it, that's the name, she's minimal and she knows it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

💖 Functions 💖

• lo_address lo_address_new (const char *host, const char *port) — declares an OSC destination from an IP address and a port number. It's literally the same as lo_address_new_with_proto(), except it's using UDP 🦋
• lo_address lo_address_new_with_proto (int proto, const char *host, const char *port) — declares an OSC destination from an IP address and a port number, but this time you get to say which protocol. main character energy, choosing your own proto ✨
• lo_address lo_address_new_from_url (const char *url) — makes a lo_address object out of an OSC URL 🔗
• void lo_address_free (lo_address t) — frees the memory used by the lo_address object. bye babe, thank you for your service 🫶
• void lo_address_set_ttl (lo_address t, int ttl) — sets the Time-to-Live value for a given target address ⏳
• int lo_address_get_ttl (lo_address t) — gets the Time-to-Live value for a given target address 👀
• int lo_send (lo_address targ, const char *path, const char *type,...) — sends an OSC formatted message to the address specified 📨
• int lo_send_from (lo_address targ, lo_server from, lo_timetag ts, const char *path, const char *type,...) — sends an OSC formatted message to the address specified, and it goes out from the same socket as the specified server 🧚
• int lo_send_timestamped (lo_address targ, lo_timetag ts, const char *path, const char *type,...) — sends an OSC formatted message to the address specified, scheduled to be dispatched at some time in the future. future you says hi ⏰
• int lo_address_errno (lo_address a) — returns the error number from the last failed lo_send() or lo_address_new() call 😭
• const char * lo_address_errstr (lo_address a) — returns the error string from the last failed lo_send() or lo_address_new() call 😭 (but in words this time)
• lo_blob lo_blob_new (int32_t size, const void *data) — creates a new OSC blob type 🫧
• void lo_blob_free (lo_blob b) — frees the memory taken by a blob 🫧💨
• uint32_t lo_blob_datasize (lo_blob b) — returns the amount of valid data in a lo_blob object 📏
• void * lo_blob_dataptr (lo_blob b) — returns a pointer to the start of the blob data, so you can go in and change the contents 🔧
• void lo_version (char *verstr, int verstr_size, int *major, int *minor, char *extra, int extra_size, int *lt_major, int *lt_minor, int *lt_bug) — gets info on the version of liblo currently in use, i.e. which liblo is actually serving rn 💫

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🦋 Detailed Description 🦋

The liblo main headerfile and high-level API functions. That's the whole thing. She's the front door, she's the vibe, she's where you start 🌟

Definition in file lo.h.

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👑 Author 👑

Generated automatically by Doxygen for liblo from the source code. so technically the author is a robot and honestly? slay 🤖✨

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and that's the page bestie 💜 this whole thing is from liblo, Version 0.34, and it's the lo.h(3) page — mwah, go forth and send some OSC 🎀🌸