osx-quicklook

Programmatic control of quicklook in OSX. There are a few other libraries that allow you to use quicklook to generate previews... while that's cool, sometimes you want to preview a set of images from the command line and while I could build something more complex, quicklook works pretty well when I'm on OS X.

Usage

require the library

var quicklook = require('osx-quicklook');

preview some files

quicklook([
	'~/Images/myProject/thumbnail.png',
	'~/Images/myProject/preview.png',
	'~/Images/myProject/raw.png'
], function(){
	//done
});

And if you give it directories of many depth, it will break them into groups:

quicklook([
	'~/Images/myProject/thumbnail.png',
	'~/Images/myProject/preview.png',
	'~/Images/myProject/raw.png',
	'~/Images/otherProject/sprites.gif',
	'~/Images/otherProject/basemap.tiff',
], function(){
	//done
})

Options

You can optionally pass an options argument as the second argument. Options are:

• emitter emits quicklook-group events on display of each group and quicklook-file on each display
• fullscreen show it fullscreen?
• directory base path common to all files
• interval number of milliseconds between files in the gallery

Testing

Manual

Enjoy,

-Abbey Hawk Sparrow