Re: Now on Leopard

"Daniel Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
13iv4sdm58i9bf2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 11/5/07 3:05 PM:

Er, doesn't this just mean you left click instead of right clicking to
expand the stack? Or am I missing something?

You can drag files to folders on the dock... sort of like how you can drag
items to "tasks" on the taskbar.

Oh! And it opens when you do this, then? I thought you just dropped stuff on
the little pile of icons in the dock!

You can do that as well. Here is what else you can do:

<http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/spring.mov>

I pressed the space bar to open the items... HA! When will Windows ever get
anything like that - just imagine how useful it would be in Windows if you
could drag a file to a minimized window and have the window open so you
could drag stuff to it. I bet MS adds that to Windows real quick! :)

On the Mac you can do it with any folder or application (even if it makes no
sense for it to do anything) and any minimized window.

[snip] * Icon preview is sometimes useful but sometimes *not*. I have it
off for many folders - I prefer to be able to see at a glance what app made
a file.

Hmm. Then Vista is Still Superior, since it puts a little badge on preview
to show you this. Sometimes, anyway.

But OS X can do a quick look on MS Office files. Vista, from what I recall,
can not. :)

Can so!

I've got Office 2007 here and it does in fact show previews. Only
PowerPoint, as far as I can see, does the preview-in-the-icon thing.

But PowerPoint, Word and Excel all support previewing in the preview pane.
This is done by embedding the actual document there, OLE style.

That is to say, what you get is the *actual* EXCEL.EXE, WINWORD.EXE, or
POWERPNT.EXE. It runs as its own process, but appears embedded inside
Explorer. That's something you can't do on OS X.

What if you do not have MS Office? On a Mac you can still preview the files
in the Finder.

The UI is cut down to fit that little pane, but you still get the goofy blue
scrollbars, and you can make selections and copy data out. Can you copy data
out of a QuickLook preview?

Absolutely... with a screen shot saved to the clipboard. :)

Of course the real advantage of this technology is better compatibility- you
aren't using a lightweight viewer but the real app, so whatever the real app
can read, you can preview.

And all thanks to the registry! :D

Ick. But not needed - OS X also does things based on file extension

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