Implementing the Mac "Quick Look" type of window

[René Micout]

Thank you Devin ! Very useful !
René

Le 9 avr. 2010 à 19:15, Devin Asay a écrit :

> 
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> Not sure the correct term for this but I'm looking for a way to to  
>> implement windows that look like the "Quick Look" windows on a Mac.  
>> They "explode" out from the document icon popup menu that you select  
>> the Quick Look function  from.  They have a semi-transparent border  
>> around the document they display and a close button at the top left  
>> and a vertical scroll bar.
>> 
>> I thought maybe the opaque property of a card might be a starting  
>> point but it doesn't seem to affect the appearance of the card at  
>> all.  Also tried playing around with the various options of the  
>> Blending Properties but they seem to affect the appearance of objects  
>> on the card rather than the card itself.
>> 
>> Thanks for any pointers as to how to do this,
> 
> Actually, Pete, if you are on a Mac, 10.5 or higher, you can can access the QuickLook capability directly. I wrote this script after a discussion on this list a few months back. Thanks to Bernd Niggeman and Jim Sims for the ideas:
> 
> on mouseUp
>  answer file "please choose ..."
>  if it is empty then exit mouseUp
>  put it into theFile
>  put apostrophe (theFile) into theFile
>  --put "qlmanage -t " & "-s 900 " & theFile into tcmd -- apparently sets it to max orig size, white window
>  -- put "qlmanage -t " & "-f 5 " & theFile into tcmd ---- apparently sets it to max orig size, white window
>  put "qlmanage -p " & theFile into tcmd -- shows it in a black window
>  get shell  (tCmd)
>  if the result is not empty then put the result
> end mouseUp
> 
> function apostrophe what
>  return "'" & what & "'"
> end apostrophe
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
> 
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