Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide

The Quartz Composer framework defines classes and protocols that work with compositions built using the Quartz Composer development tool. This book describes how to use the QCView and QCRenderer classes, and how to include compositions in webpages and widgets.

You should read this document if you are a developer who wants to load, play, and control compositions programmatically from a Cocoa application. This document assumes that you are familiar with the Quartz Composer development tool and the information in Quartz Composer User Guide. If you want to learn how to use the QCPlugIn class to create custom patches that you can use from within the Quartz Composer development tool, see Quartz Composer Custom Patch Programming Guide.

Organization of This Document

This document is organized as follows:

• Using QCView to Create a Standalone Composition discusses how to render a composition to a QCView object using Interface Builder but no code.

• Publishing Ports and Binding Them to Controls shows how to add controls to the user interface that are bound to one or more published ports in a composition.

• Using the QCRenderer Class to Play a Composition describes the QCRenderer class and shows how to use it to load and play a composition programmatically.

• Adding Compositions to Webpages and Widgets describes how to include a composition in a webpage or Dashboard widget.