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Quartz Composer Plugin

CommandLineTool					A Quartz Composer plug-in that executes synchronously a 
						command line tool.

Sample Requirements				The plugin was created using the Xcode editor running 
						under Mac OS X 10.6.x or later. 

About the sample				A Quartz Composer plug-in that uses NSTask and NSPipe to 
						execute synchronously a command line tool.

Using the Sample				Open the project using the Xcode editor which can be found 
						in /Developer/Applications. From the main menu, 
						choose "Project", set "Active Configuration" to "Release", 
						and "Active Target" to "Build & Copy".  These settings are
						also available from the top left corner of the 'Overview' 
						pop-up window. Build the project. Once the build has 
						completed successfully, the plug-in can be used as a 
						regular QC patch in the Quartz Composer editor (also 
						installed under /Developer/Applications), by selecting it 
						from the Library - Plugin panel.

						The command line standard input is set in the plug-in 
						input port "Standard In". The command with full path is 
						set in the input port "Path". To add command arguments, 
						click on the patch, open the "Patch Inspector", in the top 
						pull-down menu, select "Settings", increase the "Number of 
						Arguments", new input argument ports will be added in the 
						patch.

Installation					n/a

Changes from Previous Versions			n/a

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						http://developer.apple.com/bugreport