Dear Ali, My sincere apologies to you for mis-spelling your name. I'd also like to correct 2 gross inaccuracies in my original e-mail. I mis-spelled 'plug-in,' and instead of "plug-ins has given license," that should read "plug-ins have given license".
The first plug-in that I used was a nice piece of code written by tobyz(?) that had to do with animating text. I meant to thank Toby, but I have been unable to take the time to look up his partiiculars. I followed his instructions in a rote manner and then realized that I better read the documentation regarding plug-ins. There is a great document concerning these--I'm sorry I don't have the link in front of me. At any rate, I compiled the source and made the copy to the 'plug-in' library. I also did something similar regarding some code that I received from "Pierre," which was accompanied by some great documentation, that I thanked him for--publicly on this list. I was unable to compile a piece of this code and had to move the 'object' code directly to my plug-in library. At that point I realized that there are no restrictions in what can be coded in a plug-in. This did not make me feel very comfortable. At the very least it made me very cautious about using the plug-in library. I'm running a bit late, but in spite of a very general comment made on this thread about "always incurring some security risk," I feel that downloading .qtz files represents zero security risk. I do set the qc-editor to 'editor only,' which allows me to review the Quartz Composer, before executing. (Maybe there are a lot of images,which would annoy me with a spinning beach ball--hardly a 'security risk,' but then I never mentioned the word 'security' once in my e-mail.) Apple has put forth a lot of time and effort in the design of QC and obviously it's security aspects. If I were Apple I would hire some lunatic (sorry, I'm busy at present:-)), to try and break these--but, cordially, Apple never pays for anything that it can get for FREE:-). I will counter with the observation: "Just because it's free, doesn't mean you can't steal it." I do admire this approach , mostly because it's patently obvious that it's completely legal. I really thought that I was stating things that were 'painfully obvious," and am amused (mildly), by the responses. It is simply not worth my time to debate whether there is a major difference between downloading a .qtz file, versus copying a plug-in into what appears destined to become a 'protected' library when this product matures. If someone on this list wants to inform me that downloading a .qtz file can be potentially harmful, I certainly will only download and use those supplied by Apple (editor-only). Please, a moment of silence for the passing of George Carlin. I was amazed at the amount of time he devoted to his craft. My boss has placed a filter on my future e-mail--limiting me strictly to apple.com and me.com. I will certainly miss the other e-mails. Respectfully, aram _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
