quicklook

Yea, that would be cool.

We'd love to support QuickLook! Unfortunately there are no public APIs that allow the use of QL's preview panel, though...

sorry to hear that - any idea then how Yep and Leap do their quicklook trick?

thanks.

I have a script to use Quick Look with Quicksilver from the QS forums. I wonder if this would be useful in any way?

You can use QL's private framework to open that panel. Shouldn't be that hard, but - as already said - it's private. We need to see when we can find the time to work on that...

what about simply using qlmanage -p or -t to open preview window or generate thumbnails ?

Then you'll be missing those neat effects... ;)

Not sure, if that helps, but BibDesk offers quicklook as well. Maybe somebody over there can help?

I think that Ciarán Walsh was able to reverse engineer the Quick Look API (including the 'neat effects'). Take a look at this post on his blog.

I was wondering if you have had the time to further look into this. I have a load of files stored in punekea and not having some visual feedback, either via quicklook or via resizable-thumbnails is a hassle sometimes.
Other than that it's still as wonderful as ever :-)

I know there is a plugin for TextMate that makes QL work inside of it.
Cyberduck also does this and it's open source and free. They probably just duplicated the effect.
Is there anyway when the user presses the spacebar to:

- Copy the file to a tmp folder
- Then send that to QL which opens it
- When the user closes Punakea it erases the tmp files (in case they want to use QL again with the same file it would speed it up not to delete the file until the app was closed.)

Is there anyway to at least include thumbnails? So many files and only names really hinders how great this app can be. Sure, you can tag the files and put them into categories, but then you still have to remember what the file name was.

Punakea is a great idea and this would be an awesome feature.