Spooky Send/Receive

This release of our Spooky Send/Receive Patch fixes a couple bugs and adds some additional control to the sender.

On the sender, there's now an option to disable the patch's auto-cleaning behaviour. Usually you'll want this to be enabled to prevent memory leaks, but in special cases (in iterators, or when using it as a data-store), you don't want cleaning to take place.

Occasionally, compositions that used this patch would checkerboard on startup. This has been fixed.

Additionally, a lot of stale code (leftovers from Tiger-era development) was removed, making the patch smaller, faster, and more reliable. It should still work in Tiger.

This is the initial release of our "Spooky" patch plugin for Leopard.

Included are two patches:

• Spooky Send
• Spooky Receive

Whatever you provide to the sender becomes available to the receiver. You can "tune" each sender and receiver to have multiple pairs. Multiple receivers can listen to the same sender. If multiple senders are on the same channel, the one with the highest Layer Number prevails.

As an added bonus, multi-patch applications that make use of this patch can actually pass data Between Different Renderers — that's right, you can tie all your compositions together with this patch set. Apparently this is possible ;)

This patch is named after quantum entanglement, sometimes described as "Spooky Action."