Quartz Composer Tutorial - Part II - Making a Quartz composition into a stand alone application

The second of my quartz composer tutorials, showing how the glowing orb composition from the previous video can be turned into a stand alone application.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• quartz
• composition
• composer
• tutorial
• part
• II
• stand
• alone
• application
• mac
• xcode
• xtools
• dashcode

[hobolikespie11]

how could i distribute this becuse i sent it to my friend and it wont open for him

[joetommany]

@hobolikespie11 Did you make sure that you added the Quartz framework? It will not work on another computer without it. Also you may need to add other frameworks depending on the version of Mac OS X they are using. There may still be some difficulties when trying to run an app made on an earlier version of OS X on snow leopard as well. Hope this helps

[hobolikespie11]

Dose any one know if this could be done on iphone

[joetommany]

@hobolikespie11 as far as I'm aware quartz is built in to the iphone as well.

[MGuniverse]

Why must you add a quartz framework? It was working fine without it...

[joetommany]

Shisomiso is spot on, it will work fine on your system, but when you package it up and distribute it or something similar it wont work.

[PatriciaIsHappay]

I have the latest version of Xcode, I can't find the Quarts file, in around 3:10 I only have InterfaceBuilderKit, SenTestingKit, and CPlussTest, Which one do I use?

[LittleGirls]

i use xcode 3.0 only reason i updated to snow leopard and the shop would not give me the box they just updated my system and didnt put xcode on it, going back there next week to get it, Do you think thats the reason in my window in xcode unlike in quartz the mouse has no effect?

[kaiserpuppylove]

is they a way to do that but not with the particle system like can you make a picture you want do it instead

[BaconatorXVI]

This is soo cool! but i cannot figure out how to make this apart of my window using OSX 10.7 and Xcode 4.1

any suggestions?

[teepanda]

@samruby82 thanks a lot!!!

[gunter14]

I also am Having trouble getting it to interact with the mouse when i run it in cocoa. Help?

[MrBlastfactor]

@samruby82 where do i find this "forward all events"?

[MrBlastfactor]

@OJProductions2009 yea, i am having the exact same problem

[MrBlastfactor]

ive gone through your tutorial 2 times now, and i cant figure out this problem: whenever i go to run my "app" in the interface builder, all the stuff is there, but it doesnt move with the mouse, it just stays there in the middle... but it does work when im in quartz... thank you for the great tutorial and for any help with this question