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Basic and Advanced Tasks, Tips, and Tricks

This chapter describes how to use the editor to add patches to the workspace and connect them, inspect the values of input and output ports, and publish ports. You’ll learn tips and shortcuts for getting the Quartz Composer development environment to support your working style. You’ll see how to use some of the advanced features including templates and patches that process code.

Contents:

Adding Patches
Making Connections Between Patches
Inspecting Port Values
Finding Out What a Patch Does
Setting Preferences
Keyboard Shortcuts
Commenting a Composition
Comparing Compositions
Checking Patch Compatibility and Security
Improving Rendering Performance
Adding a Clip to the Patch Creator
Using Templates
Using Programming Patches

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