"Badging" Quick Look thumbnails

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Nov 11, 2007, at 6:18 PM, David Dunham wrote:

> Finder is superimposing "RTF", "SHELL", "TXT" on icon previews of  
> various text files (presumably thumbnails, as a Quick Look shows the  
> document as text), and "DOC" on Word documents.
>
> I'm thinking of doing the same, as the text is so small it's hard to  
> make out. Are there any guidelines as to the font size and color?  
> Even better, sample code?

You might get it for free if your UTI conforms to public.text.  Our  
file type gets that badge by conforming to public.plain-text as far as  
I can see; it draws on top of the QL thumbnail.

-- 
adam