On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Not sure the correct term for this but I'm looking for a way to to > implement windows that look like the "Quick Look" windows on a Mac. > They "explode" out from the document icon popup menu that you select > the Quick Look function from. They have a semi-transparent border > around the document they display and a close button at the top left > and a vertical scroll bar. > > I thought maybe the opaque property of a card might be a starting > point but it doesn't seem to affect the appearance of the card at > all. Also tried playing around with the various options of the > Blending Properties but they seem to affect the appearance of objects > on the card rather than the card itself. > > Thanks for any pointers as to how to do this,
Actually, Pete, if you are on a Mac, 10.5 or higher, you can can access the QuickLook capability directly. I wrote this script after a discussion on this list a few months back. Thanks to Bernd Niggeman and Jim Sims for the ideas: on mouseUp answer file "please choose ..." if it is empty then exit mouseUp put it into theFile put apostrophe (theFile) into theFile --put "qlmanage -t " & "-s 900 " & theFile into tcmd -- apparently sets it to max orig size, white window -- put "qlmanage -t " & "-f 5 " & theFile into tcmd ---- apparently sets it to max orig size, white window put "qlmanage -p " & theFile into tcmd -- shows it in a black window get shell (tCmd) if the result is not empty then put the result end mouseUp function apostrophe what return "'" & what & "'" end apostrophe Regards, Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
