Thanks, this sounds perfect. I am on 10.5 so will try this out.
Pete Haworth
http://www.mollysrevenge.com
http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge
http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband
On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:55 PM, [email protected]
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
