I want to set a basic animation for an image.ie when the application opens, an image to be shown in the window and after 1 second that image has to dissolve and show another. Can i do that using the transition filters in Xcode? If so, how? If not how can i implement that?
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There's an app called Intermission that creates a whole screen overlay:
I tried creating a floating panel which utilizes NSPanel (adapted from https://cindori.com/developer/floating-panel), but it is unable to expand beyond the toolbar/app bar.
I know I can create a new window in full screen mode and achieve a similar result, however I want to draw this overlay directly on top of the screen without entering full screen mode. How can I achieve this result in the way the Intermission app does it?
I figured it out! The trick is to set NSWindow.Level to .popUpMenu. This allows it to appear above the menubar and dock.
I am trying to develop a MacOS application using Xcode and Cocoa. My intent is to create an overlay on the user's screen that is mostly transparent, and does not register input. For example, an application like f.lux tints the colour of your entire screen like a global overlay, but you can still click on-screen items, as mouse clicks go right through (assuming that it's an overlay). How can I get started with achieving a similar overlay/widget?
I'm just getting started in development for a mac desktop app that will aid me in dealing with rigging a 2-D character in cocos2d.
The layout for what I'm working on is in the image here:
In the big grey rectangle to the right, I'd like to create an active cocos2d scene that I can interact with using the standard mac app GUI on the left. For example, when the user selects a file using the LOAD CHARACTER IMAGE... button, I want the scene to add the image as a CCSprite on the right. I want them to set the anchorPoint by clicking an anchor point button, and then clicking on the sprite, etc...
My Question is: How do I start implementing the scene within the window? How do I add the cocos2d framework to my project?
I'm fairly comfortable working strictly within cocos2d, but I need to get it to interact with a standard desktop GUI.
What steps do I take to get the scene in the window?
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I'm editing this to further clarify my questions that I need answered.
1. How do I add the cocos2d files to a project without using one of the templates?
2. How do I get a cocos2d scene to show up inside the grey rectangle of my .xib? (OpenGLView?)
i want to make an animated wallpaper for windows. So far i have only expreience with Mac OS X programming and i'm new to windows. So i decided to work with QT because it seems that there is more help out there.
Until now i have created the app in a borderless window in qt. It work quiet fine.
But is there a way in QT to change the level of the window so that its appear above the windows wallpaper but behind the icons?
EDIT:
Ok if found a simple solution.
After some testing with the hints form kusg1 I figured out when there is a transparent window mouse events going still to the desktop.
I actualy want have this website has wallpaper: Ticketack. - So i created a frameless window which stays on bottom and has a transparent background and displays the text. Beside this i can change the windows wallpaper directly to get the background of the clock.
So clock text is not behind the icons but i think this will be ok.
Just some ideas: Use the windows flag as Qt::Window | Qt::FramelessWindowHint + Windows Stay at bottom hint, and set the content of the widget with your animated content (the suitable candidate is to use QGraphicsView).
The widget needs two main tasks:
Upon launching, it grabs the desktop background as pixmap and do overlay with the animated content (this needs to have the desktop to be wallpaper-less for simple scenario).
The widget needs to capture mouse and focus event and channel back to actual window command if the user wants to click the icon on the desktop.
Update:
Some pointers for the implementation:
For managing desktop icon, there is a good article here! (also found from SO).
Qt example and demos has an example on the taking desktop snapshot, the snippet is: QPixmap::grabWindow(QApplication::desktop()->winId());
Answer to your question: no, there isn't.
However, you can try something like this using Windows API: How to draw directly on the Windows desktop, C#?
I am new to MAC development. I want to create a window with transparent. If i put the image or any control, the control only should display and window should not display and that window move horizontally or vertically within screen.
See Apple's sample project RoundTransparentWindow.