Creating an iTunes Plug-in
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Hello All,
OS X 10.5.2
iTunes 7.6
I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode where
to setup the project.
Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes SDK" on
developer.apple.com.
Does anyone have an example?
Does anyone have an article on creating iTunes and iPhoto Plugins?
Thanks!
-Jason -
On 16 Feb 2008, at 16:19, J. Todd Slack wrote:> Hello All,
>
> OS X 10.5.2
> iTunes 7.6
>
> I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode
> where
> to setup the project.
There is no official support for non-visualiser plugins to iTunes.>
>
> Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes
> SDK" on
> developer.apple.com.
>
> Does anyone have an example?
>
> Does anyone have an article on creating iTunes and iPhoto Plugins?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jason -
J. Todd Slack wrote:> I need to create a non visual iTunes plugin and I don't see in Xcode
> where
> to setup the project.
>
> Also, is there an SDK, I don't see anything but a "visual iTunes
> SDK" on
> developer.apple.com.
I believe that's your lot as far as iTunes plugins go. Other options:
- iTunes has a fairly extensive, if slightly quirky, Apple event
interface; e.g. see <http://dougscripts.com> for a whole load of
iTunes-related AppleScripts. Best option for controlling iTunes from
ObjC is objc-appscript (see my sig. for links); there's also Leopard's
Scripting Bridge, but it has some compatibility problems.
- iTunes puts out track change notifications, which you can listen for
via NSDistributedNotificationCenter. Get yourself a copy of
Notification Watcher <http://www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html> to
examine further.
HTH
has
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