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OlaOutput currently communicates with the OLA daemon (olad). It would be
nice to embed OLA into OlaOutput for simplicity's sake.

It's occured to me that OLAOutput is currently unable to send DMX data that 
starts on a channel 
higher than 1. It might be good to have an additional inlet (and argument to 
set default) which 
specifies what DMX channel number should be asssigned to the first item in the 
list data which is 
inputted to the object. This way you could send data starting on higher channel 
numbers without 
having to send potentially hundreds of values below it.

The .maxhelp is not included in the zip download.

It would be advisable to create unit tests for OlaOutput.

It would be good to have an outlet which monitored the state of connection
to OLA. It should output 1 when a connection is made and 0 when a
connection is broken. You could then connect this to an LED object. This
would make it easier to set-up OLA as you could easily tell if things were
talking to each other or not.

Is it possible to make a PPC version?

The object (or a separate object) should allow input of DMX data from OLA, 
allowing bi-directional communication.

Operation can be kept simple. The new object should function as the exact 
reverse of OlaOutput, however, instead of sending list data into the object, 
list data appears at outlet.

Output should be in the form of a list of 512 values in order of DMX channel 
number.

Create automated command line build system for OlaOutput.