QuickLook an objective-c framework used in iOS and MacOS application development typically for previews.
Questions tagged [quicklook]
324 questions
0
votes
1 answer
Xamarin QLPreviewController + NavigationPage broken on iOS 10
After updating the device to iOS 10, QLPreviewController stopped to display correctly the documents. It shows the white screen.
I have extracted the sample scenario from the app.
It contains single page with two buttons that should load two…

aguyngueran
- 1,301
- 10
- 23
0
votes
0 answers
Move thumbnail bar in QLPreviewController
I'm using QLPreviewController in my Xamarin application to display PDF files:
_qlPreviewController = new QLPreviewController();
_qlPreviewController.DataSource = _dataSource;
_qlPreviewController.View.Frame =…

Mikalai Daronin
- 8,590
- 2
- 35
- 47
0
votes
2 answers
QLPreviewController not displays saved file
I'm getting this behaviour using Xcode 8.0. The problem is, after downloading a file and storing it on documents directory (code provided below), QLPreviewController only displays document's name and size. The property currentPreviewItem returns the…

Borja Pérez Guasch
- 21
- 5
0
votes
1 answer
NSURL subclass, with file URL, doesn't work in QuickLook, for non-ASCII filenames?
There's a lot of pieces to this, but from what I can tell, they're all necessary to reproduce the problem.
I made a trivial NSURL subclass, like so:
class URL2: NSURL { }
I made a file URL with it:
let f = URL2(fileURLWithPath:…

J. Cocoe
- 881
- 1
- 10
- 22
0
votes
0 answers
previewController:shouldOpenURL does not call in iOS 10 (Objective c)
iOS 10 below delegate method does not fire.
- (BOOL)previewController:(QLPreviewController *)controller shouldOpenURL:(NSURL *)url forPreviewItem:(id )item{
return true;
}
Actually when I open pdf file from QLPreviewController,…

Wanker Silva
- 413
- 4
- 18
0
votes
2 answers
Show "Open in" for MS Word, Excel, PPT in ios objective c
Is there any way I can show Open With or Open In window for ms office files I have seen UIDocumentInteractionController and QuickLook Framework but didn't work me. Does these two really support office files?

Arun
- 31
- 1
- 3
0
votes
1 answer
Make a Quick Look NSView in Swift
I'm trying to add this feature to my app: when pushing a certain button, open a quick look view of a certain file.
I saw this:
Use Quick Look inside a Swift cocoa application to preview audio files,
but the error written in the comments shows up…

Gorbinsk
- 1
- 1
0
votes
1 answer
Quicklook plugin doesn't work when in app bundle
I've written a quick look plugin to preview my custom file type, but it doesn't work when embedded in my OS X app bundle. Running "qlmanage -m plugins" doesn't show my UTI
Manually copying the qlgenerator file from …

Hooper
- 195
- 13
0
votes
1 answer
QuickLook class not working
I have this class which works fine
import UIKit
import QuickLook
class ViewController: UITableViewController, QLPreviewControllerDataSource {
var urlList : [NSURL]? = {
if let fileURL1 = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("Essay",…

zackhalil
- 455
- 3
- 14
0
votes
2 answers
Is it possible to view a PDF file from an URL link using Quick Look Framework
As the title says, I need to display a PDF file stored in a remote server without downloading it on the device just by using an URL link. Is it possible to do it by using the Quick Look framework?
I am using this code below:
- (void)openDocument {
…

Aluminum
- 2,932
- 5
- 35
- 63
0
votes
1 answer
Quicklook plugin not recognizing its file type
Wrote a simple Quicklook plugin for Mac OS X for viewing custom image format. Worked fine on one machine, doesn't work on another. Both running El Capitan beta.
This works and displays the image even on the affected machine:
qlmanage -c…

Tomas Andrle
- 13,132
- 15
- 75
- 92
0
votes
1 answer
How do you use QLPreviewController?
This looks like the best way to so a preview of documents but I can't find any information on how to use it. Am I missing something or is there a better way to do…

respectTheCode
- 42,348
- 18
- 73
- 86
0
votes
1 answer
Applescript quicklook: arrow key down 1000 times
I'm a total beginner in apple script.
I would like to open a folder directory that contains hundreds of photos and to view each photo 1 second with quick look and then go to the next (suppose to use down arrow / key code '124').
I don't have any…

Ismaël JCh
- 3
- 1
0
votes
0 answers
Mac: "Application is not running" error when using NSAppleScript
I am developing a Quick Look plugin on Mac OSX 10.10. To provide previews for our custom file formats, I need to call our mac application from the Quick Look plugin for which I have used the NSAppleScript class:
NSAppleScript *script =…

A9S6
- 6,575
- 10
- 50
- 82
0
votes
1 answer
How to store preferences for a HTML-based QuickLook generator on OSX?
I used to do it with a custom PrefPane that has to be installed separately, but that's not satisfactory.
I have a HTML-based QuickLook generator, that create thumbnails and previews of some inhomogeneous content (files that have a long ASCII header,…

onekiloparsec
- 2,013
- 21
- 32