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August 24, 2009

Snow Leopard advisory

It appears there is a problem opening Revolution files with Revolution while running under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You can use the File menu's Open Stack... menu item to open a stack file, but double-clicking the file will result in a corrupted file warning dialog.

If you have Snow Leopard installed, open Revolution first, then open your stack from the file menu. If you are using tRev, open tRev first and it will open Rev. Then you'll be all set to go.

For those who have not installed Snow Leopard, we advise waiting for a bug fix from Revolution before doing so, if you can reasonably do so.

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Filed under  //   compatibility   os x   revolution   snow leopard  
Posted by Jerry Daniels 

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August 12, 2009

Snow Leopard sooner then expected?

From God's lips to Gruber's blog:

You should CLICK HERE to pre-order Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

!In case you have not heard about Snow Leopard for the Mac:
  • Inexpensive: $29
  • Faster than Leopard and has much 64 bit code!
  • Smaller than Leopard giving you more storage on your hard drive
  • Intel only...no PowerPC based Macs

By pre-ordering with us, you get Snow Leopard as soon as it comes out AND your favorite development team (me) will get some much-needed coffee money as an Amazon affiliate.

You should CLICK HERE to pre-order Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard!

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Posted by Jerry Daniels 

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April 14, 2009

Grape desktop org - truly new app for OS X

Check out this video...then visit this site. NOTE: no sound.


Then download and play with Grape. Something totally new for your OS X desktop.

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March 30, 2009

Using Quartz with Revolution - part sept

Mr. Obleo Beck continues his tutelage of OS X's built-in Quartz compositions. This week's discussion centers around changing parameters, among other things. 

Obleo continues to use repository effects so anyone can jump in and play with these as they are the ones Apple built for third party developers to use. The controls being used are simple ones, as not to confuse anyone (until next week's lesson). The attached stack reuses many of the scripts found in previous examples, but, many scripts have been moved to the stack level making reuse easier. So sit back and enjoy using multiply effects on one image file. Next week Obleo will do the same for videos.


Example stack:

Click here to download:
qc4Rev3.0.dmg (423 KB)

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March 19, 2009

Using Quartz with Revolution - part seis

The intrepid Mr. Obleo Beck will continue his discussion with us regarding the use of OS X's built-in Quartz compositions. These are basically core image filters and effects. Among other things, Obleo covers a new and different option for exporting movies. 

Under his tutelage, you will also learn the basics of processing both movies and images. Obleo uses the power of Revolution to manage the user interaction by making choices as to what shell script will be run.

Best get a snack, a cup of joe (I've been watching Twin Peaks), and watch the video to discover all the neat, cool stuff you can do with this process.

Here is the sample stack referenced in the video:

Click here to download:
qc4Rev2.0.dmg (1165 KB)

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March 11, 2009

Using Quartz with Revolution - part cinq

Obleo Beck continues to educate us in mysterious ways of QuickTime and Quartz. Herein you will find eight example stacks and one stand alone. Each example has it's own video.



The first example stack goes over the player example. Using QuickTime player to present a Quartz composition object to the user. It also shows a few export options, including one that uses os X 10.5.0 (and later) command line tool qc2movie (only found in Leopard and later) to export a Quartz file to a QuickTime movie. The qc2movie also will be used in other examples as we have already seen in part 4 and will seen in 7 of the 8 parts of examples stacks.

The example stack is zipped into a folder it includes two example Quartz compositions files with which to test.

NOTE: To get that timer .qtz file to work, open it in Quartz Composer, click on the Patch Parameters (toolbar), and, in the right hand panel that opens under macro patch, use the slider signScale to get the timer visible in the composition and save it.

Click here to download:
qcExamplePlayer.zip (509 KB)

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February 26, 2009

Using Quartz with Revolution - part quatre

In this video, Obleo Beck covers the main shell scripting as follows:
  1. The basics of using shell and command line tools with Runtime Revolution. Many people already know this, but some may not.
  2. How QuickTime is used with the OSX 10.5 composition Quartz method. (Yesterday's PDF should gave good hints for folks to look into Python for other methods.)
  3. The scripting aspect needed to do the Quartz process from Leopard. A basic core image process and Apple's famous reflection are used as examples.
Obleo will have stacks from this video within a few days. Next up will cover how to be more compact with the scripts, as well as the adding and using of UI elements for passing and setting the parameters to the compositions on run time.

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