Re: Embed MS Office apps into Java app

Subject: Re: Embed MS Office apps into Java app

From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:37:50 -0500

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On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Doug Zwick wrote:

That is what QuickLook is supposed to do. However, the last time I looked at QuickLook the developer doc only described how to create a preview of a document. The doc also stated that obtaining QuickLook previews was an Apple-only API "at this time". I think that was when 10.6 first came out. It would be great to have an API (even native only) to obtain QuickLook document previews, e.g. to display in a file chooser accessory panel.

I guess I'm still not sure about attempting this as a java API. Finder preview already does something like this I was thinking it was probably same API? Quaqua FileChooser does some native to get you the preview but I think it was still only the big icon view.

I did do some looking to see how a java might use this. Thinking maybe there might be some AppleScript and I am sort of looking for interesting examples of that these days.

Didn't come up with AppleScript but if you wanted this from java, this would probably work?

qlmanage -p «file»

From Ciarán Walsh's Blog - Quick Look APIs

http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/12/07/quick-look-apis

I didn't know about this. A fairly nice OS feature if you have the resources Apple has maybe, but I'd still think pretty tricky for a java developer to go cross-platform with for an application. apache poi might give you a start for the MS anyhow.

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