I can't tell you how many times I've done the same.
It's easy to forget to use the fileURL methods.
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> On May 30, 2016, at 8:15 PM, sqwarqDev <sqwarq...@icloud.com> wrote:
>
> 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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