Implementing the Mac "Quick Look" type of window

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Mon Apr 12 13:30:25 EDT 2010


No matter what you want to do with an image using the shell in this case, at
least a temp file has to be created. Not a big deal, many apps do this all
the time. Look at tempName()

Anyway, a facsimile of the Quick Look window shouldn't be that hard to do
with 4.0's graphic effects.

On 12 April 2010 10:13, Peter Haworth <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all who responded to this.  the qlmanage function will work for
> some of the things I want to do but in other cases, I want to display data
> returned to my app from the SQLite db I'm using.  I guess that was the
> original genesis of my question on how to make a stack display in Rev that
> looks like the Quick Look window.  I could write the SQL data to a file I
> suppose but then I'm face with formatting it correctly instead of just
> displaying it in fields, etc on a card.
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> On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.comwrote:
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>  Re: Implementing the Mac "Quick Look" type of window
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