SocketReaderPatch

What is SocketReaderPatch ?

A Coustom Quartz Composer Patch that recieves strings from TCP Socket.

Download

• Plugin File : SocketReaderPatch.plugin
• Source (Xcode Project) : SocketReaderPatch

Install

Copy SocketReaderPatch.plugin into /Library/Graphics/Patch .

How to use

Open QuartzComposer, find SocketReader from the Patch Library list (type “Socket” in Search in Libraries field to search it) .

Then drag SocketReader into right pane, and play it. SocketReader listens port number 12345 in default. Make some client application and write UTF-8 strings into the socket, and Quartz Composer will show that strings.

Example

ScreenCast !

Note

• Very buggy. If two or more sockets are connected, CPU usage will be so high.
• To change the port number, edit port_ variable in SocketReaderPatch.m.

Reference

I used Quartz Composer Custom Patch Xcode template from fdiv.net:Xcode Template for Custom Quartz Composer Patches. (Thanks!)

In order to play with socket in Cocoa, O’Reilly Network::mac devcenter::Networking in Cocoa was pretty helpful.

Motivation

I came up to an idea that IRC messages flow beautifully by using QuartzComposer, in RubyKaigi2007 . To push dynamic text into QuartzComposer, it seemed to be only RSS feed out there.

License

CC : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, because above Xcode template claims that license.

Contact

Any feedbacks are welcome, mail me.