Questions tagged [quicklook]

QuickLook an objective-c framework used in iOS and MacOS application development typically for previews.

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QuickLook Generator Audio

I'm trying to create a QuickLook plugin to play audio from within a package for that package's QuickLook preview, but my attempts only display the default QL preview - a larger file icon, file name, type, size and modification date. I've…
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QLPreviewController sometimes does not show the document

I have a master-detail app where the master shows a list of documents, and the detail shows a preview of these documents. In the storyboard I have draw a UIView called vistaPreview. I have declared it in .h: @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet…
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How to use SpaceBar button inside an application to invoke quick look

i had displayed some images in collectionview. now i want to select the image and press space button. If i pressed Space button , the image should quicklook in a seperate window. any idea?
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How can I delete generated temporary files when QuickLook is dismissed?

I am writing a Quick Look plugin that can generate previews for some audio files like ogg and flac by converting them to AIFF with ffmpeg and then returning a minimalistic webpage with a
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QuickLook, remove all toolbar buttons except the done button

I am using Quicklook to show some PDF files, the user needs to just see the file and then click done. the default UI gives more options like the copy or print email. Also the UI shows arrows next to the done button that can navigate to other files…
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How to distribute App with quicklook plugin

I have finished myApp with a Quick Look plugIn. Then I add a bulid phase in xcode to copy the plugIn to myApp.app/Library/QuickLook/ .Now I want to distribute it to app store and I found that the archive file xxx.xcarchive have two product in:…
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generate thumbnails using qlmanage with applescript

long time user of this resource, first time questioneer. I'm trying to write a brief Applescript that will allow me to choose an .svg file and use the quicklook (qlmanage) function to generate a quick-and-dirty .png conversion. I want this to be…
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Reading touch events in a QLPreviewController

I've got a QuickLook view that I view some of my app's documents in. It works fine, but I'm having my share of trouble closing the view again. How do I create a touch event / gesture recognizer for which I can detect when the user wants to close the…
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How to make text in `NSView` subview `QLPreviewView` selectable?

In 10.7 Lion Apple introduced QLPreviewView to allow you to embed quicklook views inside your own app. However, it doesn't seem to allow text selection by default. I found a tip allows you to make the global quicklook preview selectable on macworld,…
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How to insert the QuickTime player bar into a custom QuickLook plugin?

The question is really simple. I would like to emulate the behaviour of the default OSX's Audio QuickLook plugin, and I need the QuickTime Player which normally stays at the bottom of its preview window. I would also like that when my custom plugin…
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QuickLook plugin not getting noticed

I have a QuickLook plugin which I have successfully debugged and gotten working under the qlmanage tool. I have added the plugin to my application, at Contents/Library/QuickLook/, and I also tried putting it in /Library/QuickLook. But the OS isn't…
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QuickLook with IKImageBrowserView

I know IKImageBrowserView can be set to take control of the QuickLook panel, but how can I show that panel programmatically? Thank you
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iOS QuickLook add custom buttons

I'm using the iOS QuickLook framework in a project and a client request is to add an Email button into the Actions menu, alongside the available actions already present. Example: Email, Print, Open In... Is there a way to do this? I was thinking…
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QLPreviewController does not show the icon correctly for picture file

I am testing Apple's DocInteraction sample app. On the simulator it works fine. But on the iPad, the icon for the picture does not show up. Any suggestion how to remedy this?
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Is it possible to make CFBundleTypeIconFile dynamic?

Is it possible to make the icon of a specific file-type have an icon based on its contents. Like for example images on OS X, which shows their thumbnails.
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