Examples of using SHARED MEMORY and TOPs question

  1. SHARED MEMORY in and out - how are these used? Do you have examples of a pipeline
    with a 3rd party app?

  2. How do I use and when is it appropriate to use the TOPs toggle I see in some filter TOPs
    labeled “Reuse input’s memory” or something like that.

Hey,
There is a new guide I just put up on the wiki to answer question 1.
derivativeinc.com/wiki/index … ting_Guide

The answer to question 2 is, don’t use the feature. Its not ready for use really as its just to hard to use correctly.

Thanks Malcolm.

That will help me once I decide I want to code something that integrates with Touch.
If we zoom from the white paper level - so to speak - what was the general idea
behind it and how do you envision users taking advantage of this feature.

For some dense reason the big picture is still fuzzy. Can you describe an example use of this feature?

thanks again.

Well, it was actually created initially for some of the Augmented Reality users to be able to interface with Touch using their own custom code. The Shared Memory TOP is not meant to interface with 3rd party apps an a general sense. The only way a 3rd party app can interface with this node is if you write the code yourself, using that wiki article.

Other than that, its used for Touch->Touch communication, much like the TouchIn/TouchOut TOPs, although it will likely run faster than the TouchIn/TouchOut TOPs.

Malcolm