Is there any info on sending data from other apps to vvvv trough shared memory? Is the shared memory node using memory mapped files? I checked the help patch of Reader/Writer Raw SharedMemory node but it’s not clear for me if vvvv uses memory mapped files then why it uses “names” instead of filenam…

There is a new feature in python 3.8 allowing you to share memory from python to vvvv right out of the box: [image] multiprocessing.shared_memory — Shared memory for direct access across processes Source code: Lib/multiprocessing/shared_memory.py This module provides a class, SharedMemor…

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joreg January 8, 2019, 7:38pm 4

ok, i only knew of anonymous so far, which the Reader/Writer (Raw SharedMemory) are using. if you need a persistent file you’ll have to write your own little plugin.

seems to be just a few lines of code, see:

and here is how to write a dynamic plugin in vvvv using c#:

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