Hi guys,First of all I have good news: I got the go to use and modify the Message Maker source, so I will be able to post it soon - a soon as I come to a version which is really a good candidate for further development.I want to make the zero coupled message creation useful for all kinds of message mediators (the actor that receives the message from one actor and sends it to the final receiver actor. Let's call it controller from now on.)There are methods for message transmission which needs to identify the sender actor. For example if you have many instances of the same sender actor, but only one instance of controller.As a first implementation I included the Message Enqueuer class in the message sent by the sender actor. In the controller I stored the Message Enqueuers of the the launched classes in a mapping array which shows sender to receiver(s) mapping.When a message arrives I search through the array of Message Enqueuer classes of the senders to find the match. It works but not efficient. I have made tests (You can have a look at my test vi in the attachments: "QueueClass.zip" Just change the array input wiring from one array to the other to compare.) and found that in case of only 100 queue classes I have 170000 match/sec. The same measurement for a 100 sized array of U32s is about 6000000 match/sec. It gets worse for more queues.So I really would like to have a unique integer numeric ID for an actor. As the only thing we can access after launching an actor is the queue to it, the queue reference converted to number would perfectly do it. I have made my first try by adding one method to the Message Priority Queue class which converts the Priority queue to U32 Refnum: Another method is added to Message Enqueuer class to pass the Refnum out to the "public world" to be able to use it:This modification would need an action from AQ to modify the AF. I find it backwards compatible, so no problem, but it has to be the best method to really get into the AF.How would you do it?What do you use for identifying an Actor?Is there a way to implement without modifying the classes of the AF? I also attach the modified AF for making it all clear. Please don't forget to backup your original AF folder before overwriting it (if you will do so).

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How do you Identify Actors?

To go back to your original question, the snippet below shows how I extract a unique actor ID, although I only use it for logging purposes. I would use the enqueuer itself for real matching, as suggested.

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