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QuickLook an objective-c framework used in iOS and MacOS application development typically for previews.

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how to disable LookUp (Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia) functionality within a NSTextView?

One of my projects is an testing app where a student shouldn't be able to easily look up words while they're typing. It's relatively easy to turn off automatic spelling checking in a NSTextView via setContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled: and…
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Mac Quick Look Preview in an NSView or NSImage?

I am looking for a way (public or otherwise) to get an NSView, NSImage, CGImageRef, etc that shows the QuickLook preview for a file. Essentially the equivalent of QLThumbnailImageCreate() but for the preview. The public APIs I can find do not…
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Quick-look on UIImage in debug with Swift

Recently I can't quick-look objects in debug window. Instead of view like this: I see this: I think it changed recently as I switched to Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2. Do you know any solutions or is it update fault?
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Warning: Unbalanced calls to begin/end appearance transitions for QLRemotePreviewContentController

I already found some solutions for this problem (it is caused because there is still an active animation). But i am unable to solve that in my app when using a UIDocumentInteractionController on an iPad Application. My ViewController looks like…
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How can I Quick Look native cpp class using the visual debugger?

In correspondence with the following post: How can I Quick Look custom objects with Xcode 5 visual debugger? I would like to ask if it is possible to have a quick look for native cpp class objects ?
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Programmatically quicklook images in Mac OS X

I'm developing an application for Mac OS X in Xcode, and I'm trying to implement a button that opens an image in Quicklook mode (like when you select an image in Finder and press ). I would like this to work like Skype for Mac when you click…
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Is there a Quicklook debug command in LLDB?

Let's say I have a UIImage that I'm setting for a UIButton. I want to look at it in Quicklook. But oh no: There's no way for me to quick look debug what the image is. But I could do something from LLDB to get the image, like [getAppButton…
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quicklook html files as text, not rendered html?

OSX's Quicklook renders HTML (with the plugin /System/Library/Quicklook/Web.qlgenerator). I'd like to see plain text, as if I'd renamed the .html as .txt (that's not a solution and not only because it's awkward: I'm hoping that if the HTML rendering…
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Using QLPreviewPanel with Electron

We are looking into migrating our Objc Application to an Electron one, since the native one is just a WebWrapper around a website already. We are missing one important feature: the ability to use QuickLook to preview files. We managed to wrap…
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sandbox custom qlgenerator (Quick look) plugin

How to sandbox quick look plugin on mavericks? Currently obtaining following error message: 2014-04-14 16:26:50.507 qlmanage[5601:303] *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c) 'Permission denied', port = 0x8b13, name =…
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Prefer my QuickLook plugin

I am making a QuickLook plugin that will be included with my application. It will be used to preview a file type that other applications also have QuickLook plugins for. Every time I attempt to test with my plugin (I put it into…
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QuickLook consumer as a delegate from an NSViewController

I am having some problems implementing QuickLook functionality from a table in an NSView. The limited documentation on QuickLook really doesn't help at all. After reading through the Apple Docs (which are geared heavily towards custom generators and…
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Change default zoom in QLPreviewController

I am using a QLPreviewController to display PDF files, each page of which is a spread of a magazine. The default zoom of the QLPreview is to fill the screen by width. In portrait mode, the front and back cover, as single-pages, fill the screen, and…
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Could not load Quick Look data for "image"

I'm trying the Quick Look feature of the new Xcode 5 to be able to see my images in the debugging pane but I'm getting this message that my images cannot be previewed with Quick Look, it says "Could not load Quick Look data for "image"", where…
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Prevent iOS QuickLook from generating a cache

I'm using the QuickLook Framework in my iOS app to preview various files. I recently noticed that QuickLook is keeping a cache of all previewed files in my app's tmp directory. There are two issues with QuickLook caching files though: These cached…
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