How to support Finder preview pane for new application file types

[mhaecker at mac.com (Martin Häcker)]

>Would be great to get *something* like this working as our 
>scientific app involves creation of a lot of data files that can be 
>tedious to keep track of.  Will probably write some kind of custom 
>browser (like Photoshop's browser) but if there was a way to get 
>this "for free" in the finder it would be huge for us.

I believe that any file quicktime can display will show a preview in 
the finder.

So perhaps you can get lucky if you write some sort of 
quicktime-viewer that treats the data as a kind of image?

cu Martin
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