Quick Look plugin for Processing sketches.
The plugin enables user to view the contents of Processing sketches (Processing Development Environment .pde) in Quick Look window without even opening them. Plugin also enables thumbnail / icon creation, which allows to browse sketches in Cover Flow.
Requirements
Mac OS 10.5. Intel / PPC
Installation
- Copy processing.qlgenerator into /Libary/QuickLook or ~/Libary/QuickLook.
- Reset all generators- in Terminal.app write qlmanage -r
- If You have already previous processing.qlgenerator installed
- then simply overwrite the old one and issue qlmanage -r command to register the new plugin
- if OS X says that current processing.qlgenerator is in use and thus cannot replace old plugin
then issue qlmanage -r command, overwrite old plugin and once again call qlmanage -r
to register the new plugin
Screenshots
Quick Look with additional info in the display name (this sketch is not the main)
Quick Look with additional info in the display name (this sketch is the main)
Quick Look reports if there might be a syntax error
Quick Look multiple items
Cover Flow and icons in the list view
Icons in icons view
Version history
- v.0.1beta
22.01.2009.
Release candidate:
- Preview in Quick Look with custom display name containing:
> sketch name
> sketchbook name
> notifier if the currently viewed sketch is the main sketch for this sketchbook
- Thumbnails for Cover Flow and icons in Finder.app
> image includes all the typical icon decor, such as shadows and a curled corner
> generated more than 3x faster as in alpha version
- Smart syntax coloring
> notifies if there might be a syntax error
To do:
- Basically, this is it. I'd happy about some response from users (if any).
- The code that upon request could be changed is text size for
thumbnails. When browsing sketches in Cover Flow one
cannot exactly see the text because it's to small. Suggestion
is to make it bigger and crop, so user clearly can see the
beginning of the sketch, which helps to identify the contents.
- v.0.1alpha
20.01.2009.
First version for public testing:
- Preview in Quick Look
- Thumbnails for Cover Flow and icons in Finder.app
- syntax coloring
Known "to dos":
- the syntax coloring applies also to incorrect positions (see Quick Look screenshot for example). this is alpha and I haven't implemented "smart" coloring yet.
- // comments in some cases aren't coloured correctly. to be fixed.
- thumbnail/icon creation in my opinion is slow. the goal is to make it ~3x faster.
Hope it will come in handy!
Regards,
kroko
Processing Quick Look plugin © kroko
Processing © 2004-2008 Ben Fry and Casey Reas, 2001-2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quick Look, Cover Flow © Apple Inc.
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