Re: Creating an iTunes Plug-in

FROM : has
DATE : Sat Feb 16 18:48:57 2008

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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