Quick look feature

[carmenm]

hi,

It s been quite a long time since i posted on this forum and it s mostly because i am just FREAKING happy with XY. Yet you know as every man worthy to be called "XY user", i have a little feature request
For a few weeks now i have been working on mac and there i one feature that i just cant stop using which is Quick Look.

So i was wondering if we could get such a feature in XY. I know we have the preview page but it is not the same, Quick Look is ... well ... quick ... and you dont need mouse. You just press a key (like the spacebar) to open and again to close it.
If i am correct it would be quite easy to do for images as it is already there but not triggered that way.

What do you think?

Martin

[zer0]

You can assign a CKS to this script:

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html("<curitem>");

It will show currently selected file in a pop-up window as long as Internet Explorer supports display of such an item directly in the browser. If you wish, you are able to assign the same key to open and close such window. Is it sufficient?

[carmenm]

I tried it but it s not so good. It s a first step but :

- XYplorer loses the focus, i would really prefer the same window as we have when we do a left click on a preview. With ie it s not that usable
- you cant use the same shortcut to close or open i as XY doesnt handle the window opened

[zer0]

- XYplorer loses the focus, i would really prefer the same window as we have when we do a left click on a preview. With ie it s not that usable

Sure, it's a workaround rather than a solution for you wish. Not sure about Don's plans to make a snap-out preview window.

- you cant use the same shortcut to close or open i as XY doesnt handle the window opened

I think that if you remove "Enter" from being currently assigned to any CKS, then it should be available in the pool of free KS to assign to a UDC, such as "Run Script"

[admin]

For a few weeks now i have been working on mac and there i one feature that i just cant stop using which is Quick Look.

What's the difference to Quick File View resp. F11 (full screen preview)?

[serendipity]

For a few weeks now i have been working on mac and there i one feature that i just cant stop using which is Quick Look.

What's the difference to Quick File View resp. F11 (full screen preview)?

I think the difference is that all file types can be viewed in "full screen mode" by hitting the space bar. While in XY most things can certainly be viewed in IP>preview but not all in full view. Also, i think the emphasis is on using just one key.
Link to mac's quick look:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-mac ... -look.html

[carmenm]

You are right serendipity it s all about simplicity. T be true F11 is not so bad. But for me fullscreen is too much. On my mac i use this feature all the time. I do a quick look while doing something else just to check something. I dont really want to see it in fullscreen.
But after playing with it i realized that for most format i get a XY preview(i am not sure what kind of "preview", maybe just text/binary ...) which is not fullscreen, just images. Why so?
Could you make so that F11 also close the window. I dont really want to have to think about what key to press to close the window and my finger is already on F11...

Thakns

[admin]

You are right serendipity it s all about simplicity. T be true F11 is not so bad. But for me fullscreen is too much. On my mac i use this feature all the time. I do a quick look while doing something else just to check something. I dont really want to see it in fullscreen.
But after playing with it i realized that for most format i get a XY preview(i am not sure what kind of "preview", maybe just text/binary ...) which is not fullscreen, just images. Why so?

Use Quick File View to see the bytes regardless of the file type.
Use Full screen preview (F11) to see images as images, any other files as bytes.

Could you make so that F11 also close the window. I dont really want to have to think about what key to press to close the window and my finger is already on F11...

Was on my list anyway. Did it.

[carmenm]

Thanks.