How to support Finder preview pane for new application file types

[greg at omnigroup.com (Greg Titus)]

On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Rick Hoge wrote:
>  On the other hand, if there were some way to do something even as 
> simple as writing an icns or PICT resource to my files that would be 
> really cool because it would give a bit of context in the finder.  I 
> am working with Medical image files which, for backward compatibility, 
> should not have anything extra in the data fork.  I do everything in 
> Cocoa though and know nothing about Carbon, which is where all the 
> API's for writing resources seem to be -

Check out IconFamily, which will do exactly this for Cocoa:

http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/software/objects/IconFamily/

Hope this helps,
	- Greg