Re: Visual iTunes Plugins Questions

FROM : Jonathan del Strother
DATE : Tue Feb 19 20:59:35 2008

On Feb 19, 2008 7:12 PM, J. Todd Slack <<email_removed>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that one can create ³visual² iTunes plug-ins.
>
> So this means that the user has to have their Visualizer turned on and
> select the plugin that I write for it to work.
>
> My question is:
> 1. Can you create a UI inside of the visualizer? Use Open GL? I need the
> user to have a form presented to them to make choices about what should
> happen.
>

Take a look at http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2016.html,
particularly kVisualPluginConfigureMessage.  You can pop up a
Cocoa/Carbon window through that.

(Incidentally - sweet baby jesus, they updated TN2016!  Why did noone
tell me about that?)