viewer

I am in charge of an installation that runs Quartz Composer 24 hours a day and gets video input from AXIS cameras. Every so often the network connection fails causing the images to freeze on the last frame. The best way I have found to fix this is to stop and start the viewer again. Rather than doing this manually, is there a good way to automate this to happen every night at say, 3:00 AM? I know I can schedule things with launchd, but what method would be the best to actually do the starting and stopping? An applescript to click the menu item? Is there a better way?

Hey!

I'd like to create a second viewer window for compositions, to have a small representation of my compositions.

I think the Quartz Performer is a good example of what i'm looking for, but the preview window should be positioned in the original viewer window. (a "floating" stand alone version might also be possible.

I'm trying to get results by looking at the Quartz Perfomer sources, but it hasn't really worked so far. too sad the interface builder is a bit too cheesy to go the easy way, ;)

of course one could create the same patches etc in one comp, only smaller, but that would be a performance killer i think..

who has an idea?

take care.