On Sep 15, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Michael Kertesz wrote:
The RSS Screensaver template provided with Quartz Composer is nice
-- but it does not show how keyboard input can be handled to open a
URL (like the OS X RSS Screensaver provided by Apple does).
Opening the Apple RSS Screensaver, I noticed the keyboard output
from the composition is sent to an output called "launchURL" -- but
this doesn't seem to work when placed in other compositions.
Any ideas regarding a way to "launchURL" from a QC composition?
Thanks,
-Michael.
The options box for the built in RSS screen saver is also handled
differently. It displays only a list of possible feeds, not a string
input for the feed, and it doesn't show any of the other inputs. If
you copy the original screen saver to your own library folder, it
will continue to do this, but if you try to save it as something
else, the options box will appear the way you would expect and the
launchURL output will cease to have any effect. It seems that both of
the built-in quartz composer based screen savers are handled
differently from other quartz composer documents.
In other words, I do not believe it is possible to use this output
unless you could somehow trick the screen saver program into thinking
your creation was the built-in one.
