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Anyone know what program the Apple store demos likely use to make their interactive desktop....

I have a project that I am attempting to do and we want something similar to what the Apple store does. We thought it was a Quartz Composer interactive desktop but I've been putting together an xcode cocoa solution to do it too.

Here is an image of what I'm wondering about it is just a Title and 3 images that link out to url locations. If anyone can point me in the direction they believe can make something like this I would appreciate it.

I have used Quartz Desktop to display a .qtz but it isn't interactive. If anyone knows of another quartz desktop displaying .app that does use the interactive parts such as mouse and keyboard, it would be appreciated.

Applestore demo

+1  A: 

It's a custom proprietary program called, if I remember correctly, Concierge. But it's not doing anything tricky. You can make any NSWindow appear on the desktop by setting its window level to kCGDesktopWindowLevel.

Chuck  2010-08-11 04:57:01
Thanks I've been working over solutions all day. Figured I would see what everyone else knew about it.
Rugluds  2010-08-11 05:00:49
I had a coworker do some research at the apple store, The program running this is called DesktopButtons, but it is tied in to Concierge services from what I read. Its actually not to hard to make a program that looks like this one.
Rugluds  2010-08-12 03:35:45

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