Programming / Writing Quick Look (QuickLook) Plug-in (plugin) Snow Leopard
I have been doing a little research the past few days on writing/programming quick look plug-ins. So far I have found this apple developer page.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Q uicklookProgrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
I also found these videos on youtube discussing the steps required to create a quick look plug-in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMNSU-PIoOo <- Part 1
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctx5G3f3rM <- Part 2
Then I stumbled upon these websites that distribute quick look plug-ins.
1) <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.quicklookplugins.com/
2) http://www.qlplugins.com/
The second link listed has a section for people developing quick look plug-ins, but after reading the wiki, it seems to cover integrating quick look into a mac os x application rather writing a plug-in for a specific file type.
Basically I wanted to write a quick look plug-in that can handle text files with a different file extension than .txt At the current moment quick look only previews/renders a quick look of text files that have an extension of ".txt".
My thought process on the matter was to create a quick look plug-in for TextEdit that can handle the file extension I want to preview in quick look. I know I can edit the ".plist" file on TextEdit and get the support for the file extension but that is not the route I want to go. I would rather learn how to write a quick look plug-in. The guy who posted this quick look plug-in is what I want to learn how to write/program.
http://whomwah.github.com/qlstephen/
I tried looking at his source code for the project to see how he wrote the quick look plug-in, but I did not quite understand how he wrote the plug-in in xcode.
So my question, what is the best way to write a quick look plug-in that can render/preview different file types other than ".txt"?
If anyone has expierence on this topic I would not mind hearing how you wrote your quick look plug-in.
cheers & Happy New Years.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Q uicklookProgrammingGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html
I also found these videos on youtube discussing the steps required to create a quick look plug-in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMNSU-PIoOo <- Part 1
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctx5G3f3rM <- Part 2
Then I stumbled upon these websites that distribute quick look plug-ins.
1) <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.quicklookplugins.com/
2) http://www.qlplugins.com/
The second link listed has a section for people developing quick look plug-ins, but after reading the wiki, it seems to cover integrating quick look into a mac os x application rather writing a plug-in for a specific file type.
Basically I wanted to write a quick look plug-in that can handle text files with a different file extension than .txt At the current moment quick look only previews/renders a quick look of text files that have an extension of ".txt".
My thought process on the matter was to create a quick look plug-in for TextEdit that can handle the file extension I want to preview in quick look. I know I can edit the ".plist" file on TextEdit and get the support for the file extension but that is not the route I want to go. I would rather learn how to write a quick look plug-in. The guy who posted this quick look plug-in is what I want to learn how to write/program.
http://whomwah.github.com/qlstephen/
I tried looking at his source code for the project to see how he wrote the quick look plug-in, but I did not quite understand how he wrote the plug-in in xcode.
So my question, what is the best way to write a quick look plug-in that can render/preview different file types other than ".txt"?
If anyone has expierence on this topic I would not mind hearing how you wrote your quick look plug-in.
cheers & Happy New Years.
mbp, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
