Hi vade. Thanks for the tips. I did think about the grid, but I thought there should be a better way. So I will listen to your advice and dive in Objective c.
I an starting with the book from Aaron.Hillegass. Also got Become and Xcoder. Do you know a source for quicktime cocoa stuff? Best regards Mario On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:54 PM, vade <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably something where you probably want to start delving into > Cocoa for, to be honest. > > You can easily load a folder of QTMovies from cocoa, and use the [movie > posterImage] method to get an NSImage, and set an NSButton to use the > posterframe as its image, and set its representedObject to your movie. Then, > when you trigger the button, the represetned object is the movie you wish to > play. You can then use Quicktime to get images to pass to a published image > input port to a QCRenderer you have loaded. > > I know that may sounds much more complicated that it ought to be (depending > on how comfortable you are with Obj-C / Cocoa programming) but most of the > time things can be more easily done by levergaging just a touch of Obj-C to > augment Quartz Composers ease of use. QC is not meant to replace a larger > programming environment, but to augment it, and do some specific things > really well. > > My advice is to move some of your logic to Obj-C, and build a small app > that wraps your QC composition. If you are hell bent on using QC, I would > suggest the mouse patch, and doing some examination of the coordinate the > mouse is at when the mouse down is fired. If your buttons are in a grid, it > should be fairly straightforward to determine the index of the movie clip > you want played. > > As for loading compositions dynamically, yes, you can do so with the > Directory Scanner, get info on it and choose settings, then choose > "Compositions", or in Cocoa you can instantiate multiple QCRenderers on the > fly, and render them at your choosing. > > On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Mario Marquez wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I am Imagenero..new in this list. Been using QC since late 2009. > > I am making a video switcher in which I want to load a folder with movies > using the directory scanner, then I want to generate a thumbnail of each > movie in the directory and be able to click on the thumb to load the movie. > > > So far I can read the "movies" folder, load the selected index movie into a > player using the structure index and make a thumbnail using kineme "Quick > Look". I only get a thumb of the movie loaded. not the entire directory. > > > Instead of using the index slider to load a new movie in the player i want > to be able to click on a thumbnail to load the movie. > > My question is : is it posible to create dynamically the thumbs (using > virtual patches or composition loader) according to the number of movies in > the directory and the members of the structure. I don´t want to hardwire > the number of movies you can load in the comp. > > I have tried using the iterator patch to create buttons(not Thumbs), with > partial results. I can draw the number of buttons using the structure count, > but i can´t click on them to send the id of the movie to the structure > index. > Since the consumer patches in the iterator can´t get an output, I can´t > connect the button id to the structure index. > > I hope this makes sense. > > Just to resume: > > is there a way to create/load patches or compositions dynamically? > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks for you time > > I. > _______________________________________________ > 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/doktorp%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > > >
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