Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
- Subject: Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:08:48 +0000
On 7/11/02 5:41 am, Alex Rice <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 05:00 PM, Dave Mattson wrote:
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> Good evening:
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> Does anyone know what I need to provide to get my application to
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> support and
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> present thumb nail images instead of just a standard file icon.
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> cocoa-OSX of
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> course. Where do those come from anyway?
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> My question is just where I can find some documentation.
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> I have gone back through all the documentation and can't seem to find
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> clues.
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NSImage *theFileIcon = [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] iconForFile:
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@"/path/to/file"];
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[myImageViewOutlet setImage: theFileIcon];
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Oh wait-- I just reread your message and I'm not sure this is what you
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are after. The method above will show the appropriate icon for whatever
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file type it is, but I don't think it "previews" the file. However some
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file types show a preview. I don't know maybe I shouldn't be answering
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:-)
I think Dave's talking about giving custom icons to each file. IIRC that's
done by adding a resource fork to the file and stuffing the icon in that.
Cheers,
Chris
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