Got it. Should have been using fileURLWithPath.
Thanks to dangerWill…I hadn’t posted the code I wouldn’t have spotted that!!
> On 30 May 2016, at 18:08, sqwarqDev <sqwarq...@icloud.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On 30 May 2016, at 17:42, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Did you include the code?
>>
>
> There’s only two methods for the datasource. Mine look like this:
>
>
> #pragma mark - QLPreviewPanelDataSource
>
> - (NSInteger)numberOfPreviewItemsInPreviewPanel:(QLPreviewPanel *)panel
> {
> return [_arrayController selectedObjects].count; // returns ‘1'
> }
>
> - (id <QLPreviewItem>)previewPanel:(QLPreviewPanel *)panel
> previewItemAtIndex:(NSInteger)index
> {
> NSArray *pathArray = [[_arrayController selectedObjects]
> valueForKey:@"Path"];
> NSString *pathString = pathArray[0];
> NSURL *previewPath = [[NSURL URLWithString:pathString] absoluteURL];
> return previewPath; //returns ‘Users/phil/Documents/sample.txt'
> }
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Phil
>
>
>
>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On May 30, 2016, at 7:20 PM, sqwarqDev <sqwarq...@icloud.com
>>> <mailto:sqwarq...@icloud.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hoping someone can get me over the final hurdle…
>>>
>>> I have an NSTableView and I want the user to be able to hit the space bar
>>> to invoke a QuickLook preview of the selected item. These items are not
>>> custom objects, just regular text files.
>>>
>>> I’m following the sample code provided by Apple in QuickLookDownloader as
>>> my guide (see:
>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/QuickLookDownloader/Introduction/Intro.html)
>>>
>>> I’ve got everything up and running in the sense of, yes, I can hit the
>>> space bar, a preview panel pops up and shows my item’s title and an icon
>>> (the wrong icon, but that’s not my worry, yet). What it doesn’t show is a
>>> preview of the text file.
>>>
>>> In the log I see this message:
>>>
>>> [QL] LSCopyDefaultApplicationURLForURL for
>>> /Users/phil/Documents/sample.txt returned error Error
>>> Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "paramErr: error in user parameter
>>> list”
>>>
>>> My question is where in my code do I provide this parameter? I don’t see it
>>> given in any of the methods in the QuickLookDownloader source.
>>>
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
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