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Re: FxPlug versioning API
by Peter Litwinowicz 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: FxPlug versioning API
by Paul Schneider 02 May '07

02 May '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com On May 2, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Christoph Vonrhein wrote: Hi Darrin, On May 1, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Darrin Cardani wrote: This is a great idea. I like that feature and it is quite useful too. Very important!!! - Christoph _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a… You know that Motion and FCP behaves strange when you try to retrieve a parameter that does not exit. So it is most important to be able to ask for the version during render to avoid crashes. FWIW, this should be fixed in FCP 6. If you try to retrieve a parameter that doesn't exist, we should now simply return NO. We have a proposal for a plugin versioning API for FxPlug. This would allow plugins to know which version of their plugin was used to create an instance. For example, if the user created a document and applied WhizBangFilter version 1, we would save that "Version 1" information in the project file. If they then upgrade to WhizBangFilter version 2 and opened up the old project, we would tell the WhizBangFilter that this particular instance was created with version 1 of the filter. That would give the filter the option of: 1) Only displaying those parameters that existed in version 1 and rendering as if it were version 1 2) Appending new parameters, but with default values that didn't change the output and rendering as version 2 3) Adding a popup menu item for the user to choose which version they want the plugin to act like 4) Any other crazy thing you might want to do with version information Just the addParameters code snippet should look a little different. In you example only someone with a newer version of FxPlug SDK would be able to see the new features of the plugin and people with Motion 2 would not be able to use version 2 of the plugin. (Yes, I know. You've just posted a quick example.) You could also access it during render, if you want to preserve older rendering functionality. (I've tried to make it so you can access it during any method.) You know that Motion and FCP behaves strange when you try to retrieve a parameter that does not exit. So it is most important to be able to ask for the version during render to avoid crashes. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/pschneider% 40apple.com This email sent to pschneider(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: FCP6 TemporalImageAPI - returning an image different from main input
by Paul Schneider 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: FCP6 TemporalImageAPI - returning an image different from main input
by Peter Litwinowicz 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: FCP6 TemporalImageAPI - returning an image different from main input
by Paul Schneider 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: FCP6 TemporalImageAPI - returning an image different from main input
by Peter Litwinowicz 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: Determining if a well image is used without actually getting the image
by Paul Schneider 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: Determining if a well image is used without actually getting the image
by Emile Tobenfeld 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: Determining if a well image is used without actually getting the image
by Paul Schneider 02 May '07

02 May '07

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Re: Determining if a well image is used without actually getting the image
by Emile Tobenfeld 02 May '07

02 May '07

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