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Feature request: Quicklook Plugin #564

Open 8bitgentleman opened 10 years ago

8bitgentleman commented 10 years ago

For the mac users of Tiled a quicklook plugin for .tmx files would be very helpful. That way we don't have to open a file to just take a quick look at it.

stefanbeller commented 10 years ago

There is already the tmxviewer. I don't know how good that integrates within macOS though.

8bitgentleman commented 10 years ago

I'm not sure how to use the tmxviewer under maxOS but a Quicklook plugins let the user to view a preview of the file by just selecting the file and hitting spacebar. Right now in macOS when a .tmx file is selected and the user hits spacebar a window pops up showing lines of code, not exactly a useful preview.

bjorn commented 10 years ago

@8bitgentleman Would you be able to help set this up? I'm not sure where to start. The tmxviewer would probably make for a suitable application for performing the Quicklook, but somehow the application needs to tell OS X to use it for that purpose.

8bitgentleman commented 10 years ago

I can take a look at this but I'm relatively inexperienced and I don't have a ton of time. A quick google search brings up some useful resources http://blog.10to1.be/cocoa/2012/01/27/creating-a-quick-look-plugin/ https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/quicklook_programming_guide/Introduction/Introduction.html I'll let you know how it goes.

bjorn commented 10 years ago

@8bitgentleman Hmm, that looks way more complicated than I had imagined. Apparently you can't just associate some helper application for doing a Quicklook, but you need to write a plugin that generates something (like an image) that the Quicklook application supports.

8bitgentleman commented 10 years ago

How does tmxviewer integrate into macOS right now? Maybe there's some kind of workaround.

bjorn commented 10 years ago

@8bitgentleman Hmm, at the moment tmxviewer does not integrate into OS X at all. It is a command-line application that is currently compiled as its own tmxviewer.app. I even noticed right now that it actually won't run as-is because the libtiled library is not included in this .app (that library compiles only into the Tiled.app).