accessing supercollider command line

scientificsound

Is it possible to interact with the supercollider command line/workspace from the command line in the IDE? I'd like to do some quick and dirty debugging (e.g. posting a variable to the console) as the project is running as you would be pressing CMD + SHIFT + E or simply evaluating a line in the editor window in the SC IDE, but it seems that I can only access the bela file structure via bash. This post from 2017 mentions that execution of individual code blocks is in development, but I haven't seen anything else about it since.

On a related note, are there any other examples for using SC on bela besides those in the Examples > Supercollider folder in the IDE? Thanks!

EDIT: i see there's 7-remote-control in the SuperCollider examples folder, so I'll give that a try...

jkvk

hey scientific,

The example you mention shows how to control bela's scsynth from your laptop.
Here's another take, using bela's sclang to evaluate the code, so state/objects are living in bela's memory.

// bela remote: forwarding code evaluation to bela's sclang

// 1. this should be in bela's main.scd (or custom startup file):
OSCdef('eval1',{|msg| msg[1].asString.interpret.value.post }, 'eval');

// 2. run this locally in scide (eg. laptop)
this.preProcessor = {|code| NetAddr("bela.local", 57120).sendMsg("/eval", code) }; 

// check bela ide (http://bela.local) for posting
s.queryAllNodes;

// a safe version of the OSCdef, for untrusted networks
OSCdef('eval1',{|msg| 
      var code = msg[1].asString; 
      (code.contains("unixCmd") || code.contains("systemCmd")).not.if({ code.interpret.value.post })
}, 'eval');

• to get back to scide, you need to recompile (reload) sc's class library (command-shift-l)
• the OSCdef above allows valid sclang code coming from anything that can send OSC messages (not just scide)