Localhost - play, internal - scope?

[tedor2]

Dear Reader,

Could someone explain me, why .play works on the localhost, and .scope on the internal?

All the best,

Krisztian

[dewdrop_world]

Scope requires the internal server because the graphic objects (which run in the language client) have to read memory from the server. That means the server and client have to run in the same process, which is how the internal server works.

Playing a function is not actually tied to the local server. If you don't specify a target, it goes to whatever is the default server at the time. So you could run the following, and {  }.play would then use the internal server.

Server.default = s = Server.internal;

You could also make that a persistent setting by putting this line into your startup file -- there's a help document called "using the startup file" that explains how to set this up.

hjh

[tedor2]

ok, that helps to vanish some clouds:)
thank you!
tEd