Fun with Leopard (OS X)

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Brucey (Posted 2008) [#1]

Some of you might be interested in this little Leopard only (Intel) app I threw together over the past hour... Just kick it off, choose a directory with png or jpg files in it. Once you see the little black window, hit SPACE :-) Download (120k). <EDIT> : Yes, it's all BlitzMax... in case you were wondering. Comments etc welcome ;-)

DavidDC (Posted 2008) [#2]

Cute! So how's that done then?

Brucey (Posted 2008) [#3]

Via some undocumented APIs. It's the same functionality as you get when you press SPACE in Finder. Except we have more control from here :-)

xlsior (Posted 2008) [#4]

Not having a Mac to try this on, I am curious: What exactly is this sample program supposed to show?

DavidDC (Posted 2008) [#5]

It's the Leopard Quicklook function. Allows you to preview the file contents without opening the actual app associated with the file extension. Very handy 'cause it's so fast and just a tap of the spacebar away. Brucey seems to have managed to gain control of it in Blitzmax - though he's not showing us how!

Winni (Posted 2008) [#6]

That's great stuff, Brucey! :-) My only concern is that you say you're using undocumented APIs.

Brucey (Posted 2008) [#7]

Unfortunately, Quicklook is undocumented at the moment (private framework). But some other cool stuff has been similarly private in the past and later on made "public". Still, it's fun nonetheless :-) There is a lot of cool stuff in the Mac API that's crying out to be played with in BlitzMax...

Winni (Posted 2008) [#8]

You mean like Core Image and CoverFlow? ;-)