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This update to the QuickLook plugin adds a fallback to Icon Services to generate icons of Finder icons when QuickLook is unable to generate a preview.

It's still pretty simple :)

This release of Audio Tools includes the following changes:

• Added new Kineme Audio File Input Patch, which outputs an image and structures containing sample data from a specified Audio File. This is analogous to the Kineme Audio Input Patch, but is useful for offline rendering with QuartzCrystal.
• Added new "Volume Peaks" output to Kineme Audio Input Patch.

[ More info on this patch set ]

QCRehab gives some of the unofficial-API functionality back to the Official API. Features such as Safe Mode and Subpatch support are enabled, allowing more flexible plugins.

Changes: Version 0.3 fixes some bugs which caused 64-bit QC applications to crash on startup. Upgrading is strongly recommended as QC-aware applications increase.

This plugin uses the Unofficial API, so it goes in ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches/, not ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Plug-Ins/.

This plugin was written in response to several complaints about 3^rd party plugins not working in "safe" environments. When installed, this plugin will allow all official-api plugins to load in any environment -- This is Extremely Dangerous, Don't Do It Unless You Know You Need it!

For security reasons, it's Always Disabled in Safari (so malicious compositions cannot harm your machine via the web, even when this plugin is active). Custom plugins should still work in Keynote presentations, in Motion, in Quick Time, and in other applications that may struggle with safe-mode issues.

Note that this does not unlock "unsafe" built-in patches, such as Audio and Video Input. Only custom, Official-API Plug-In patches are unlocked.

It's also useful for plugin developers who are interested in sticking with the official API. It would also be necessary for a user of such plugins.

This plugins obsoletes the "Official API Subpatch Support Plugin" we released a few months ago. It offers identical functionality, including fixed subpatch-save support (meaning compositions with subpatches are properly restored when loaded).

To use this in your Official-API plugins, simply add a +(BOOL)allowsSubpatches method that returns YES to allow subpatches in your patch.

For developers: When making a sub-patch-aware patch, you'll need this piece of code to execute subpatches:[[self patch] executeSubpatches:(double)time arguments:(NSDictionary*)args]. This should go in your execute method only.

Have a lot of fun :)

I expect Apple to include this functionality in a future release of QC, so Please only use this if you know what you're doing. If you bundle this in with other plugins, please make the user aware of what's going on, and how they can remove it.

This is the first public release of our "Audio Tools".

[ More info on this patch set ]

Safe OSC is a patch that modifies the existing built-in OSC patches to work in safe mode. This allows them to work in "safe-mode sandboxed" applications. [Please read the warning before using this plugin!]

There are some applications that don't load "unsafe" patches from compositions. Keynote and QuickTime are two notable ones. This plugin modifies the existing OSC patches to allow them to get loaded along with the others. For safety purposes, this plugin won't function in Safari.

Warning: Circumventing the "Safe Mode" restriction introduces some privacy issues — for example, malicious compositions can attempt to record or broadcast UDP network traffic through the OSC protocol. As such, you should only use/install this plugin when you need this functionality.

Unlike other safe-mode hack arounds, this one actually is Extremely risky -- please make sure you know absolutely what you're doing. If you're not sure what UDP or OSC is, Please Do Not Install This Plugin.