Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Jens Alfke)
Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Jens Alfke)
- Subject: Re: Bifurcating text color in QL on X.6, how? (Jens Alfke)
- From: Eden Smallwood <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:43:56 -0800
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> From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
> To: Eden Smallwood <email@hidden>
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> I'm curious why you're doing this on 10.6. Is that the only OS version that this behavior happens on?
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> —Jens
I’m endeavoring to keep my little shareware project back-compatible to X.6
As discussed, on X.6 the QL previews launched from the finder show on a translucent black background, and honestly it does look cool. On X.7, 8, and 9 ( I haven’t bothered with Yosemite yet) Apple changed it. The window has an opaque white background, identical to the subview in the finder’s “Info” window, and thus a text foreColor of black works everywhere.
Notice that any developer who wrote a QL plugin on X.6 and used a text foreColor of white, so that it “fit in” and looked cool at the time, why... when their users upgraded to X.7, and the same QL preview is called, the text would then be invisible. Bummer!
OTOH, I feel like the only guy in town who *has* written a QL plugin, other than Apple.
QUICK QUICKLOOK POLL ! EXCITING !
Hey, readers, execute the following at the shell and post if ( result != 0 ) :
qlmanage -m | grep -v /System/Library | grep -v com.apple
For myself, I get... only the QL plugins from my shareware thing I’m working on. I don’t have a *ton* of 3P software, but still.
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