Vade Would you be so kind as to extrapolate on what you said… for the lurking non-programmers like me please?
>Being able to get an NSView object from a plugin and being able to > drop it into a nice designed UI would be really cool, especially for patches > like interpolate and timeline with interesting parameters.). Are you saying it your suggestion is to allow 3rd party QC interfaces to replace/augment the current inspector interfaces in patches like Timeline? That is, to have the very interface elements of the QC Editor be QC’s themselves? Keith On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM, vade <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as a developer and an end user, I really frown upon using view > controllers for custom QC patches. The reason is simple as this: > > you cannot publish controls exposed in the view controller to the host app > since they have no outlets or inlets, nor can you publish the view itself to > the host app* > In short, if your patch has controls, please make them standard input ports, > so they can be used with 3rd party Quartz friendly apps by other devs. > > Just saying :). Why not make your controls parameters? > > *(this is actually a pending feature request of mine, and i think would be > awesome. Being able to get an NSView object from a plugin and being able to > drop it into a nice designed UI would be really cool, especially for patches > like interpolate and timeline with interesting parameters.). > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Milton Aupperle wrote: > >> So we have a catch 22 situation here. The device doesn't get accessed from >> the -createViewController until the -startExecution method gets called >> because it hasn't been opened yet and -createViewController is already >> allocated by the plugin so it's all set to fail!. And if device is released >> in the -stopExecution call, then it once again can not be accessed at all in >> -createViewController. This is just a very poor user experience - I expect >> Apple to be better than this kludge! >> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/songcarver%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
