...ie a pink patch means it can only exist in a macro without any outputs, which is kinda annoying as most of the use i have for this is as a data mangling node, away from the actual rendering macros. is there any chance of this being worked-around, or is this the only way to force it to execute on input change?
Keyboard shortcuts are high-level events, I don't think shell stuff can induce that directly (without some special programs that inject artificial events onto the event queue).
However, you can call a program called "oascript", which can run an apple script. AppleScripts can probably cause most of the functionality of shortcut keys, so that might be a direction to investigate.
i made an apple script plugin. its in the repository, you can do shell commands with it or anything apple script can do. it executes every frame so interpolating lets say the volume of itunes is possible. there isn't any output. so if you are doing shell commands you better no what your doing as you do not see the errors and quartz will execute the command on a frame basis so take that to mind when making a folder or something. i usually pulse a command in to not get multiples. it takes javascript as well so you can open a website or something.
being a "renderer"...
...ie a pink patch means it can only exist in a macro without any outputs, which is kinda annoying as most of the use i have for this is as a data mangling node, away from the actual rendering macros. is there any chance of this being worked-around, or is this the only way to force it to execute on input change?
Initially, I made it a renderer because that's the only way to make it execute without it needing to be attached to a renderer.
I can build a non-renderer one (with the implied condition being that'll only execute when attached to a renderer somehow) if you'd like.
Is there a way to output keyboard shortuts from terminal, and/or from the shell command patch ? Is there another way to generate this from QC ?
regards.
yanomano.
Keyboard shortcuts are high-level events, I don't think shell stuff can induce that directly (without some special programs that inject artificial events onto the event queue).
However, you can call a program called "oascript", which can run an apple script. AppleScripts can probably cause most of the functionality of shortcut keys, so that might be a direction to investigate.
Is it just me or is this Patch now defunked in Snow Leopard?
Any plans to update it or am I out of luck on this one!
Thanks,
robbietherobot!
When Leopard was released, Apple included an example plugin which did essentially the same thing --- http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/CommandLineTool/index....
So we haven't updated this patch in a long time. Use Apple's code instead.
i made an apple script plugin. its in the repository, you can do shell commands with it or anything apple script can do. it executes every frame so interpolating lets say the volume of itunes is possible. there isn't any output. so if you are doing shell commands you better no what your doing as you do not see the errors and quartz will execute the command on a frame basis so take that to mind when making a folder or something. i usually pulse a command in to not get multiples. it takes javascript as well so you can open a website or something.
Wohoo! Thank you both for your instant replies! All sorted now.