On Oct 19, 4:32 am, Jon Stovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I doubt you will convince him to fiddle with Nocturne much.
>

I believe that. But the code is open source! I grabbed it and
extracted what I needed into a new app. It was actually pretty easy,
Nicholas did all the hard work.

Nocturne uses an obscure system method to invert all colors (most
likely the same one used in Universal Access), so that was a no go for
inverting only my external screen. But to invert hue, it places a top
window acting as an overlay, using a core image filter. All I had to
do was change the filter to invert colors, instead of hues, and place
it on the external screen. But then, I also added a hue filter on top,
since it kind of keeps the original colors, which is pretty cool. On
the downside, it's slightly less smooth to refresh, ie when dragging
windows.

Anyway, I don't have a lot of experience with Cocoa, but to me it
seemed humanly possible to fix the app and add some feature requests,
I wouldn't mind doing it as an exercise, if Nicholas agreed, but I
have a months long list of other things to do before that. But I hope
this serves as a little cheer for others to dig into the code.

In the meantime I have this little app that inverts the colors of the
external screen (only one). Pretty specific, and no eye candy. But if
anyone wants the app or source code drop me a mail.

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