By the way: This application, since it uses QC for compositing still
images much like my upcoming "Sandvox" does, fails silently (and, to
the end-user, mysteriously) on older hardware (such as a 2001
Titanium PowerBook G4), presumably because QC is not supported on
that configuration. So this application, like mine, could benefit
either from CPU fallback, or at least some way of detecting
incompatible systems.
Interestingly, when I spoke to Howard Miller at Apple last week (he's
the manager for the group that includes Quartz Composer), the use of
QC as a method for building up still-image processing pipelines
wasn't even considered by the team. Since I know of two applications
now that are doing this, and possibly more (I was trying to convince
the author of Comic Life to use QC files to store image processing
paths), it definitely makes sense to come up with a solution to this
problem....
Dan
On Jun 13, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Aaron Tuller wrote:
Hello,
Not sure if anyone cares, but we released our USPS customized
postage application, and it uses a subclass of QCView to do all the
image manipulation, most of the "code" is in a big Quartz Composer
comp, including the spotlight code, the photo filters (re-ordering
support in a giant multiplexor) and even the text. It saved us a
bunch of time, and was a lot of fun.
In any case, not as much a plug for us, but for using QC in an app
with bindings, it's such an awesome tool. We were just going to
prototype with it, but then it was done, and it worked.
