brisywisy Profile Joined May 2011 Canada 10 Posts Last Edited: 2011-11-08 21:10:42 #1



The problem I've been having is I have a lot of Starcraft replays, and they are just opaque files. They look like this when you preview them:





I have to double click them and open them up to see who is playing who and who won, etc. So I developed this Quick Look plugin to allow previewing replay files. In the same way you can press space to see a preview of an image file, you can now see a preview of a Starcraft 2 replay. Just highlight the replay in Finder and hit the space bar. Below is an example:







Download here



Installation instructions:

open up Terminal and run these commands:

mkdir ~/Library/QuickLook

cd ~/Downloads # or wherever you downloaded it

unzip SC2Look.qlgenerator.zip

mv SC2Look.qlgenerator ~/Library/QuickLook/

qlmanage -r



Making it prettier:

If you open the bundle (right click, show package contents) and go to Contents/Resources/, you can see a collection of images and the html template. Please feel free to edit them and make it look nicer. It does still need work.

I don't know how many people here use a Mac, but I've been working on this tool for a couple of weeks and thought I'd share it here.The problem I've been having is I have a lot of Starcraft replays, and they are just opaque files. They look like this when you preview them:I have to double click them and open them up to see who is playing who and who won, etc. So I developed this Quick Look plugin to allow previewing replay files. In the same way you can press space to see a preview of an image file, you can now see a preview of a Starcraft 2 replay. Just highlight the replay in Finder and hit the space bar. Below is an example:Installation instructions:open up Terminal and run these commands:mkdir ~/Library/QuickLookcd ~/Downloads # or wherever you downloaded itunzip SC2Look.qlgenerator.zipmv SC2Look.qlgenerator ~/Library/QuickLook/qlmanage -rMaking it prettier:If you open the bundle (right click, show package contents) and go to Contents/Resources/, you can see a collection of images and the html template. Please feel free to edit them and make it look nicer. It does still need work.

Logan_ps Profile Blog Joined September 2011 United Kingdom 116 Posts #2 Awesome work there! Downloading it now. A very handy tool - cheers.

RoyalCheese Profile Joined May 2010 Czech Republic 735 Posts #3 Cool idea Kennigit: "Chill was once able to retire really young, but decided to donate his entire salary TO SUPPORT ESPORTS"

phrase Profile Joined August 2011 United States 37 Posts #4 Hey, great work! I'll show this to my friend for sure

ticktack Profile Blog Joined January 2011 United Arab Emirates 872 Posts Last Edited: 2011-11-08 10:40:13 #5 wow this is an awesome idea!! totally gonna check it out A winner is just a loser who got pissed off and tried harder

Matkap Profile Blog Joined September 2010 Spain 622 Posts #6 wow thats really cool A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

driftme Profile Joined June 2010 United States 359 Posts #7 great idea! an awesome thing would be to show the winner too.

brisywisy Profile Joined May 2011 Canada 10 Posts Last Edited: 2011-11-08 17:34:47 #8



Thanks for the positive response! On November 09 2011 02:32 driftme wrote:

great idea! an awesome thing would be to show the winner too.



It puts a star next to the winning team. My plan is to add game duration, region name and maybe APM. It puts a star next to the winning team. My plan is to add game duration, region name and maybe APM.

Noev Profile Blog Joined January 2010 United States 1105 Posts #9 This is amazing i can't say how many file types quick look dose not support, its such a useful feature very nice work

PopcornColonel Profile Joined March 2011 United States 679 Posts #10 Holy crap, this looks great. Will definitely download when I get back on my mac. Zerg delenda est.

Indrium Profile Joined November 2010 United States 2222 Posts #11 I actually use bootcamp to run SC2 but this is still a really nice, well done tool. Thanks for your work!

superjoppe Profile Joined December 2004 Sweden 3601 Posts #12 Awesome! /Mac user

brisywisy Profile Joined May 2011 Canada 10 Posts Last Edited: 2011-11-08 22:10:44 #13 On November 09 2011 06:52 Indrium wrote:

I actually use bootcamp to run SC2 but this is still a really nice, well done tool. Thanks for your work!



You're welcome. Is Windows better for SC2 because of DirectX? I forgot to mention this plugin works fine without SC2 installed. You're welcome. Is Windows better for SC2 because of DirectX? I forgot to mention this plugin works fine without SC2 installed.

ptmc Profile Joined June 2010 Finland 57 Posts #14 Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.

Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?



Thanks!



brisywisy Profile Joined May 2011 Canada 10 Posts #15 On November 09 2011 07:16 ptmc wrote:

Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.

Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?



Thanks!





Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight. Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight.

MattyClutch Profile Blog Joined September 2010 United States 711 Posts #16 I pretty much only play SC2 on my PC, but still a neat program. Will pick this up next time I am on my MacBook Pro. Thanks! || Nihn'kas Neehn - mattyclutch.wordpress.com ||

ptmc Profile Joined June 2010 Finland 57 Posts #17 On November 09 2011 07:21 brisywisy wrote:

Show nested quote +

On November 09 2011 07:16 ptmc wrote:

Hi, is this limited to 10.7? Because i can not seem to get it to work on 10.6.8.

Copying the bundle into my home library and restarting quicklookd works fine, but the preview doesn't change?



Thanks!





Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight. Yes this version doesn't work on 10.6 because I forgot to compile for 10.6. I'll upload a new version tonight.



Sweet, thanks again!

Sweet, thanks again!

tabbott26 Profile Joined May 2011 United Kingdom 379 Posts Last Edited: 2011-11-08 22:22:48 #18 Looks cool, will download!!



Would be EPIC too if this FFA were to occur...



EDIT: Or has it already?? EGHuK - EGIdra - EGDeMuslim - MVPGenius - Liquid'Sheth - ROOTKiwikaki

Echuu Profile Joined December 2010 Sweden 42 Posts #19 Awesome, not much mac development going on in the Sc2 scene so always nice to see something like this. Thanks!

MajorProblem Profile Joined July 2010 Sweden 14 Posts #20 Fantastic !!!



Quick Look extensions are really cool. Got a problem?

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