I think it may be the case that mouse won’t work in many, possibly all of the protocol comps, because it isn’t possible to get the window info?
Is this true, or am I overlooking something?
For Image Generator & Filter Protocols at least it’s true.
Related feature request : Pointer Interaction Protocol with some comments from Steve
And an older question from … George Toledo it seems ;) Shader toy node mouse events/image filter protocol
Oh, hmm. Well to answer Jaymie’s final question, you publish x/y with proper protocol key names.
When you create a protocol comp, these are published already, so you just have to hook them up. Then QC sends mouse events from the rendering window to the composition.
That’s how most protocol stuff in QC works for sending data typically needed to program.
edit: testing now, and I see that in QC the mouse events are forwarding in the template picker, but not the actual template composition. When I run audio protocol, I see an empty structure. So…inconclusive.
Kind of orthogonal to the issue of “how to get mouse/trackpad coordinates” when the window renders on its own in VUO (with no visible nodes to get the window info from).
In this case, maybe there could just be a “get” patch or something. Or maybe publishing the port could cause the editor app to make the data available.