Tutorial for Quick Look Generator not associated with .app

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Tutorial for Quick Look Generator not associated with .app

I've checked out Apple's Quick Look Programming Guide: Introduction to Quick Look page in the Mac Dev Center, but as a more of a science programmer rather than an Apple programmer, it is a little over my head (but I could get through it in a weekend if I bash my head against it long enough).

Does anyone know of a good basic Quick Look Generators tutorial that is simple enough for someone with only very modest experience with Xcode?

For those that are curious, I have a filetype called .evt that has an xml header and then binary info after the header. I'm trying to write a generator to display the xml header. There's no application bundle that it belongs to. Thanks!

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You might want to start with looking at sample code. Some people learn faster from seeing an example. Here's a generator example:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/QuickLookSketch/Introduction/Intro.html

Ken Aspeslagh 2010-04-13 13:13:03

Thanks for the link. I'm an example learner for sure. Have you seen examples of QLGs that are not attached to an App? For example, I rename my_friends.txt to my_friends.fnd and want to just view the file with Quick Look.

vgm64 2010-04-13 17:27:46

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "not attached to an App". Can you explain what the problem you're having is?

Ken Aspeslagh 2010-04-15 13:36:39

To extend my other comment, lets say I have a file my_friends.fnd that lists my friends. If I quick look this, it doesn't know how to render a preview, right? There is no program associated with the ".fnd" exention (maybe a command line program or something, but not a .app bundle). How do I write a QLG for that? Most tutorials go in the direction of referencing a .app that owns the file.

vgm64 2010-04-19 15:58:52

QuickLook doesn't use the file's app to get a preview, it uses the generator. That's the whole point. ;) Here's a sample I found by Googling:http://brushviewer.sourceforge.net/It's a viewer for photoshop brush files (abr). Might be a good example to start with.

Ken Aspeslagh 2010-04-20 03:09:17

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