Fun with Leopard (OS X)

Some of you might be interested in this little Leopard only (Intel) app I threw together over the past hour...

Just kick it off, choose a directory with png or jpg files in it. Once you see the little black window, hit SPACE :-)

Download (120k).


<EDIT> : Yes, it's all BlitzMax... in case you were wondering.


Comments etc welcome ;-)

Cute! So how's that done then?

Via some undocumented APIs.

It's the same functionality as you get when you press SPACE in Finder. Except we have more control from here :-)

Not having a Mac to try this on, I am curious: What exactly is this sample program supposed to show?

It's the Leopard Quicklook function. Allows you to preview the file contents without opening the actual app associated with the file extension. Very handy 'cause it's so fast and just a tap of the spacebar away.

Brucey seems to have managed to gain control of it in Blitzmax - though he's not showing us how!

That's great stuff, Brucey! :-) My only concern is that you say you're using undocumented APIs.

Unfortunately, Quicklook is undocumented at the moment (private framework).
But some other cool stuff has been similarly private in the past and later on made "public".

Still, it's fun nonetheless :-)

There is a lot of cool stuff in the Mac API that's crying out to be played with in BlitzMax...

You mean like Core Image and CoverFlow? ;-)