It’s finished. The real craze and controversy over Disco’s smoke is over. Jonathan Wight was the first to write up an article on integrating the smoke effects into a third party Cocoa application. Times have changed, and the smoke framework bundled with the more recent versions of the application no longer produce the desired results by using the same code.

So how do you get any Cocoa application to start smoking? Austin Sarner was kind enough to reveal the usage and implementation of the changes to the Disco framework which allow a wider variety of Macs to experience the entertaining effect.

How would you like to have the power to squish, warp and transform windows to your liking? With the private Core Graphics function CGSSetWindowWarp, you can!