On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Rob Keniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's no public API to do this at present. You'd need to create a > temporary file and use the "qlmanage -p /path/to/thefile" tool via NSTask. > I strongly discourage using qlmanage to display the Quick Look panel. "qlmanage -p" is meant to debug plug-ins (as stated by the man page) and is really not suited to provide a user interface. In fact, it will give you a very poor user experience: 1) it executes the plug-in directly (and does not use quicklookd), it can't protect itself from bad plug-in behavior. 2) it does not provide all Quick Look panel controls 3) since it's a simple terminal tool it does not integrate properly with a calling application (does not get any key events, can't correctly zoom in/out, etc.) Using qlmanage that way will be even more discouraged in the future. Of course, I also strongly discourage trying to use any private framework or private API to work around that problem as you'll have 99% chance to see your application broken in the next OS release. The best you can hope is to wait for Apple to provide a public API (and you are welcome filing a report to Apple). > > Of course, you'd need to write a QuickLook generator in order for the > temporary file to be previewed correctly. > > If it were me, I'd just use a custom preview class as you have already > done. > Exactly, an image view (IKImageView or NSImageView) + a HUD window is not that hard to do. -- Julien _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
