Monday, November 26, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
On the face of it, I'm not sure how to approach a SWF... one could pull out a "single page" vector document preview for a SWF? But at what point does a SWF become recognizable... is frame one good enough, especially when you're talking about programmatic UIs, etc.
I'll be digging through the docs to see if something might be possible in order to generate Quicklook previews for our beloved SWFs, but this may be above my head. Someone at Adobe might know the answer immediately and may already be addressing this internally in their respective departments, if so please leave a comment or note about the general viability of getting some kind of SWF representation with .swf files.
Update: found this, has some FLV, etc.
6 Comments:
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Keith Peters said...
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“I had the same questions last week.
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1088
From what I can tell, software vendors will be encouraged to provide quick look plugins as development goes forward. Adobe did not commit to doing this for CS3. I guess the timing was a bit off. Not sure if they will release one before CS4. Or if someone will homebrew one before then.” -
Campbell said...
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“Looks like the maker of the FLV quick look has a webkit one too ;) just make a standard renderer pointing the webkit instance to the right swif I guess.
C” -
e.dolecki said...
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“campbell - good idea.
a webkit renderer would work great... although the default size of the SWF would be unknown (I am assuming), so a default size would need to be used.
I'll check that webkit Quicklook one.” -
luminousnerd said...
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“It should play the full swf, Actionscript and all. Every SWF is different, you can't just show a frame or some such thing. If you QuickLook an HTML page, you can see the Flash playing inside of it, works great...I'm no programmer, but if the HTML QuickLook can play Flash, I don't think it would be all too difficult to get it to see the SWF the way the browser does...
I am waiting :)” -
e.dolecki said...
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“luminousnred:
Yup, should work like that in concept, however you wouldn't know the proper size to render the SWF, so you'd have to use the webkit control at a pre-determined size and just hope the SWF looked okay playing within it.
As long as you got some kind of preview of the file, that would be better than only seeing an icon of the SWF file :)”
