Re: Publish keyboard commands

The mouse and keyboard events are forwarded directly to the composition through an internal mechanism and the Keyboard and Mouse patches make them available. You don't need to publish anything.

However, when your app starts, if the QCView is not the focused view, then it won't receive the user events. You might have to click in it first, or ensure it has the focus programmatically.

On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Mark Burton wrote:

Thanks Pierre. I've always had that setting checked though. Is there something else with the way the keyboard patch needs to have its ports published? I've not connected anything inside IB for these keys, should they simply be passed on anyway (when "Forward all Events" is checked)?

Thanks

Mark

On 2 Jan 2007, at 18:33, Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote:

In Interface Builder, make sure to check "Forward All Events" in the QCView inspector settings

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On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Mark Burton wrote:

This is a bit of newbie question I'm afraid:

I have a composition which contains a keyboard control macro. Inside Quartz Composer the keyboard commands work fine. However I can't figure out which bits I need to publish or how to patch them so I can use the same keyboard commands when the composition is used in a small cocoa app.

I have lots of other published ports which are mostly operated via sliders and tick boxes in the external app (via a QCPatchController), but I can't get the keyboard commands to work outside of Quartz Composer.

Any ideas,

Thanks

Mark

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