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Re: Getting thumbnail of document to appear?
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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:

> On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 05:00 PM, Dave Mattson wrote:
>
>> Good evening:
>>
>> Does anyone know what I need to provide to get my application to
>> support and
>> present thumb nail images instead of just a standard file icon.
>> cocoa-OSX of
>> course. Where do those come from anyway?
>>
>> My question is just where I can find some documentation.
>>
>> I have gone back through all the documentation and can't seem to find
>> any
>> clues.
>>
>
> NSImage *theFileIcon = [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] iconForFile:
> @"/path/to/file"];
> [myImageViewOutlet setImage: theFileIcon];
>
> Oh wait-- I just reread your message and I'm not sure this is what you
> are after. The method above will show the appropriate icon for whatever
> file type it is, but I don't think it "previews" the file. However some
> file types show a preview. I don't know maybe I shouldn't be answering
> :-)

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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