Re: QuickLook generators in application

FROM : Eric Gorr
DATE : Thu Nov 29 20:35:57 2007

The documentation is wrong. Bug reports have already been filed, but I 
would suggest you file one as well.

Your generator should go into MyApp.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/


On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Todd Ransom wrote:

> I am trying to add QuickLook support for my application but the 
> QuickLook daemon does not seem to be recognizing my generator when I 
> place it in my application package. The documentation states:
>
> You can store a Quick Look generator in an application bundle 
> (inMyApp.app/Contents/Resources/QuickLook/) or in one of the 
> standard file-system locations:
>
> ~/Library/QuickLook—third party generators, accessible only to 
> logged-in user
> /Library/QuickLook—third party generators, accessible to all users 
> of the system
> /System/Library/QuickLook—Apple-provided generators, accessible to 
> all users of the system
>
> but that does not seem to be true. If I copy my generator to ~/
> Library/QuickLook it works fine, but if I put it in my app package 
> at the specified location it is not found.
>
> Is this an error in the docs or am I doing something wrong?