This project is currently under heavy development. Always come back to see what's new.
Quick Look is among the few features I missed from Mac OS X. It enables very quick preview of file by pressing Space key while highlighting it, without opening its associated application. Then I decide to add this feature to Windows by myself, which results this “QuickLook” project.
You may ask, why you write this when there several alternatives available on the Internet (e.g. WinQuickLook and Seer)? The answer is that, they are all among those which no longer actively developed, lack of support of file types and plugins, or asking user for amounts of $$$.
Till now, QuickLook supports the preview of
- Images: e.g.
.png,.jpg,.bmpand.gif - Compressed archives:
.zip,.rar,.7zetc. - Pdf file
- All kinds of text files (determined by file content)
- Microsoft Word (
.doc,.docx), Excel (.xls,.xlsx) and PowerPoint (.ppt,.pptx) files (requires MS Office installation) - Other files and folders will be shown in a information box
Hotkeys in preview window:
- Space Show/Hide the preview window
- Ctrl+Wheel Zoom in/out
The previewing ability can be extended by new plugins. Read the plugin interface, context object for more information. Pre-shipped plugins contains more detailed implementation.
Note that any plugin must be under the QuickLook.Plugin namespace, has the filename similar to QuickLook.Plugin.YourPlugin.dll and placed under <Application>\Plugins\QuickLook.Plugin.YourPlugin\ subfolder.