Thanks for showing the command line tool looks really handy… The reason I needed this is because my screensaver is running dramatically slower than it does natively in QC. So I'm having my screensaver open an application version of the screensaver that then fills the screen, kind of a workaround but it works much faster.
- K On Jan 3, 2010, at 2:48 PM, peter boardman wrote: > On 3 Jan 2010, at 16:28, George Toledo wrote: > >> Ok, then, as long as you don't have it working either ;-) I've not been able >> to get that to work in the context of that plugin for the life of me. > > It can work if you set it up like this: > > Standard in: osascript -e "tell application \"iTunes\" to get current stream > title" > Path: /bin/sh > > It's possible that the -e option is difficult to sneak through. > > The problem I'm tackling now is how to get this command to be triggered by a > change of information in iTunes, like when it starts up a new track... > > Please Mr QC Apple person, make all this easier! :) > > >> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:48 AM, peter boardman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 3 Jan 2010, at 14:22, George Toledo wrote: >> >>> What command are you using to get the iTunes stream title? That has plagued >>> me for the longest time. >> >> Hi! The Terminal command is >> >> osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to get current stream title' >> >> and it's the same in AppleScript. But I've yet to work out how to call this >> using the CommandLineTool plugin. All this quoting and escaping just makes >> the job so much harder than it should be... :) >> >> >>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:11 AM, peter boardman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> out of the box, this is not possible. But with the Shell Command patch >>>> (it's a developer example) it's possible to launch an app. >>> >>> Ah, thanks for this hint! It allowed me to find the current iTunes stream >>> title (about which I asked some weeks back). >>> >>> For the record (and to save others some head-scratching) you have to >>> download it from: >>> >>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/CommandLineTool/index.html >>> >>> and then build it with Xcode and install it at /Library/Graphics/Quartz >>> Composer Plug-ins. >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/gtoledo3%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/channell%40apple.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]
