I don't know. I'm not actually trying to integrate CIFilters and Core Animation 
in the way that you are doing. I remembered that you had mentioned the name 
property of the CIFilter because that property is actually useful to me, 
because I need a way to refer to filters which are earlier in the filter chain 
and the name seems like a useful way to find a filter that I want.

Kevin

On 27 Feb 2014, at 17:38, Gordon Apple <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you.   I would have never found that. But what does “enabled” do?  Or, 
> more precisely, what does “not enabled” do? If a filter is not enabled, does 
> that mean it is transparent and simply passes input to output?  I can’t 
> believe something so simple in concept as a freeze filter is so difficult to 
> implement.  CIFilters are black magic. They just don’t seem to follow the 
> usual expectations of software constructs.
> 
> I did get my highlighting filter to work, using color blend and/or a 
> GaussianBlur embedded filter for the background, with controllable 
> parameters. The user can even live-draw and edit the clear areas of the 
> filter (used as a transient layer in a presentation layer stack).  It 
> provides a very nice effect for drawing attention to specific areas.
> 
> 
> On 2/27/14 9:42 AM, "Kevin Meaney" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> First a note. The name property is declared as a CACIFilterAdditions in 
>> CACIFilterAdditions.h.
>> 
>> I think you will need to draw the CIImage to your CIContext and then 
>> generate a CGImage to capture its state for future reference and then 
>> generate a new CIImage from the CGImage. I believe the CIImage that is the 
>> output of a filter is more a recipe about how to generate an image and not a 
>> bitmap representation of the image which I think is where your problem lies.
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:28, Gordon Apple <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Apparently, my comment about not understanding this construct for
>> > setValueForKeyPath was correct.  It actually works. I finally got the
>> > highlighting filter to work and update properly. Now I¹m trying to do
>> > something much simpler, i.e., construct a freezeFilter.  Nothing I¹ve tried
>> > so far works.  Apparently, a CIFilter is expected to be stateless function
>> > such as outputImage = f(inputImage, parameters). Not accepting this 
>> > premiss,
>> > I decided to try caching the first output image ( from the outputImage
>> > method), then return the cashed image thereafter, an ultra simple concept,
>> > except that it does not work. Any reason, besides what I postulated, why
>> > this shouldn¹t work?
>> > 
>> > 

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