Okay, my friend Pierre and my other QC friends, return with me to the
earliest days of this list, where I reported (and bug reported) that
a Quartz Composition does NOT refresh its feed info from feed while
it's playing.
I've tried this on various machines in various configurations (as QC
files, as QuickTime movies, as a screensaver, as QC Views within
cocoa apps), and the bottom line is still the same:
Once you start a QC View, it goes and gets the feed data ONCE and
that's it until the next time it is restarted or reinitialized or run
again.
I started two identical QC comps. The first one at 9 pm this evening,
looping along for hours. The second one I fired off minutes ago, at
12:15 or so am. They're the same comp. They're both pulling from
http//weather.gov/data/current_obs/KFTY.rss
(a weather forecast for Atlanta.) The one I started at 9 pm says
'Updated at 8:53 pm EDT.'
The one I started a few minutes ago says "Updated at 10:53 pm EDT",
which is what Safari is currently reporting for that feed.
Bug or feature? It's really a showstopper for me...I need the data
onscreen to update while the composition runs continuously--or at
least once an hour. What we maybe need is a way to poke the RSS Feed
patch and say 'go get that data again.'
Passing it the same URL doesn't seem to work. Passing it a different
URL and then back to the first one seems to, but is kinda fragile.
