Quartz Composer Help

While learning how to use patches, it is handy to use tooltips to investigate what outputs are produced given specific inputs. The problem comes when the tooltip results don’t seem to change whatever the inputs are set as.

As compositions are executed ‘from graphics back to the logic’, patches don’t execute unless they are connected (either directly or through other patches) to a patch that draws on the screen.

However some patch outputs can’t be connected directly to patches, but all outputs can connect to the ‘Enable’ input of the Billboard patch. Once an output is connected, the tooltip result will update correctly.

- alex4d