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QC LuaPlugin – now with a (slightly) better editor and images
Posted by admin on Feb 28, 2010 in Mac OS X, Quartz Composer
In February I’ve worked now and then on my Lua plugin for Quartz Composer.
The Good
- Courtesy of Noodlesoft, the editor is nicer, and shows line numbers and a marker when an error is detected.
- There is now a sort of experimental support to image type: still no way to interpret them (and, anyway, why?), but they’re properly recognized and passed around
The Bad
- I’ve also added a composition to do some simple benchmark, and the result is that Lua lags behind a properly written JavaScript (tests done on 10.6)… Not surprising, given that Lua is standing (almost) still, while Apple has put a lot of efforts in JavaScriptCore lately! The lack of a 64-bit LuaJIT is starting to hurt…
The Ugly
- To implement the images, I’ve had to use undocumented APIs (the QCImage class isn’t public), as there was no (simple) way to get what I needed in the “Official” one…
