TCP version

[gaborpapp]

As far as I know it's UDP only. Would it be possible to add TCP support?

[monsieurgustav]

Hi Gaborapp,
Indeed it is currently UDP only, as OSC generally is.
Adding support for TCP is largely doable, but I have no plan to code it myself.

[gaborpapp]

Thanks. Would you accept a pull request about this?
As I see it now oscpack can be replaced with liblo that supports TCP.

[monsieurgustav]

Yes, I would accept a PR!
Some recommandations:

• there should be a setting to choose UDP vs TCP, defaulting to UDP.
• oscpack is used only to write/parse OSC messages, not to send/receive them. I used the UE4 network functions instead. So the TCP connections should be established using the UE4 functions too. I'm not inclined to replace oscpack.
• I guess some new events are needed (connected, disconnected, etc.). I would prefix them with "TCP" so that people do not expect them to work when using UDP.

[monsieurgustav]

Several years later...
7e99bb8 adds a DispatchPacket method. I use it to plug this plugin with the nDisplay event system, but that would work to receive from TCP too.