Lua Sender C API

The Sender C API can be used to send asynchronous messages to native code running in other threads.

• Lua objects implementing the Sender C API can send asynchronous messages.
• Native C code invoking the Sender C API can read the asynchronous messages from any thread.

Lua objects implementing the Sender C API must have an associated meta table entry _capi_sender delivered by the C API function sender_get_capi() and the associated C API function toSender() must return a valid pointer for the given sender object. For further documentation see sender_capi.h.

Implementations:

• mtmsg buffer objects are implementing the Sender C API. If messages are added to the buffer, native C code can read the message from this buffer by invoking the Sender C API.

Invocations:

• auproc MIDI sender processor objects are sending midi messages that are given by a registered sender object to an auproc-capi connector, see auproc.new_midi_sender() and ljack/example04.lua.

• auproc AUDIO sender processor objects are sending audio samples that are given by a registered sender object to an auproc-capi connector, see auproc.new_audio_sender() and ljack/example08.lua.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.