Quartz Composer - Native Datatypes

Native Datatypes

Data inside QC can be one of the following types:

• Boolean - a boolean value, 0 or 1
• Index - a positive integer between 0 and 2147483647
• Number - a double precision floating point number
• String - a unicode string
• Color - an RGBA or CMYK quartet, or a Grayscale value
• Image - a 2D image of arbitrary (possibly infinite) dimensions
• Structure - a named or ordered collection of objects, including nested structures
• Virtual - any of the above

Two additional types were introduced in version 4.0:

• Mesh - a collection of vertices, and per-vertex normals, texture coordinates, and colors in 3-space
• Interaction - a valueless type used to associate user input with user-interactive elements of the composition