Apple Remote Patch for Quartz Composer Apple Remote Patch for Quartz Composer

Posted by smokris on 2007.05.16 @ 17:51

Filed under:

Apple Remote and Apple Remote patch

I took Martin Kahr’s Apple Remote Controller Wrapper Class and built a Quartz Composer patch around it.

This release is only compatible with Tiger (10.4).
Leopard (10.5) includes a built-in Apple Remote patch.
Please see also kineme.net for Leopard-compatible patches.

Get version 0.1 here.

Some notes:

  • The events received from the Apple Remote are fairly strange to begin with.. You don’t simply get “key down” / “key up” events as I would have assumed, but instead get cooked events — for many of the buttons, holding the button down generates a different event than tapping it.
  • My patch queues events, to ensure that each keypress is visible for at least one frame.
4 Comments so far

Let it be said … you rock!

Must get my head around this building plugins thing.

Submitted by Steamshift (not verified) on 2007.05.18 @ 11:09. |

Excellent idea and opens up some great invention (i’m thinkin about using it to lock/disable keys on my DVJ application when i go to the bar while performing). Ok so now i just need to remember where did i put that remote thing!?

nice job / lovin what your doing 4 the qc community

Submitted by Jayj (not verified) on 2007.06.02 @ 08:42. |

Hi i have updated to leopard, and as i can tell from what you wrote, leopard comes with built in support in cocoa for apple remote events. if you can point me to where i can find more about this subject i would be very grate full. Thanks, Gur.

Submitted by Gur Zeevi (not verified) on 2007.12.30 @ 13:28. |

Gur -

In the Patch Creator / Patch List do a search for “Apple Remote” — there’s a built-in patch that outputs the Apple Remote events.

  • smokris

Submitted by smokris on 2007.12.30 @ 13:38. |

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <blockquote> <pre> <div> <span> <b> <i> <br> <table> <tr> <td> <th> <small> <sub> <tex> <equation> <equations> <s>
  • You can enable syntax highlighting of source code with the following tags: [code], [blockcode], [applescript], [bash], [c], [cpp], [css], [diff], [drupal5], [drupal6], [html4], [java], [javascript], [latex], [lisp], [lua], [m68k], [make], [mysql], [objc], [pascal], [perl], [php], [python], [ruby], [sql], [xml].
  • You may insert videos with [video:URL]
  • You can use Markdown syntax to format and style the text. Also see Markdown Extra for tables, footnotes, and more.
  • Adds typographic refinements.
  • LaTex commands embedded in text will be interpreted and rendered. Additional information can be found at DruTex Documentation Pages
    • Allowed commands include: \atop \binom \cdot \cfrac \choose \frac \int \ln \over \sum \to
      Allowed environments include: align array equation equations gather matrix split
    • Provides different environments to create rendered images (especially maths).
    • Assists automatic numbering of tex, equation, and equations environments.

    More information about formatting options