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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:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/7JKl2.png)
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:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/7P0BL.png)
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.
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Awesome work there! Downloading it now. A very handy tool - cheers.
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Cool idea 
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Hey, great work! I'll show this to my friend for sure
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wow this is an awesome idea!! totally gonna check it out
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great idea! an awesome thing would be to show the winner too.
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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.
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This is amazing i can't say how many file types quick look dose not support, its such a useful feature very nice work
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Holy crap, this looks great. Will definitely download when I get back on my mac.
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I actually use bootcamp to run SC2 but this is still a really nice, well done tool. Thanks for your work!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
Sweet, thanks again!
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Looks cool, will download!!
Would be EPIC too if this FFA were to occur...
EDIT: Or has it already??
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Awesome, not much mac development going on in the Sc2 scene so always nice to see something like this. Thanks!
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Fantastic !!!
Quick Look extensions are really cool.
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i use a PC to play sc2 but this is extremely well done. gj!
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Very awesome, I'll snag this when I get my MBP back.
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I don't have a mac, but this is really cool - thank you for doing this.
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That is fantastic work. Thank you! I love people who can write quicklook plugins!
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nice idea, thanks for sharing
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On November 09 2011 07:22 tabbott26 wrote:
Looks cool, will download!!
Would be EPIC too if this FFA were to occur...
EDIT: Or has it already??
http://drop.sc/317
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Oh man you are saving my life! Thank you so much!
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I can't get it to work for me. Anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
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nice , but how do I uninstall it afterwards?
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Wow this is so awesome! I have been running a tournament at my school for a couple of weeks now, and keeping track of the replays has not been easy (especially when people don't rename them >.<). So needless to say, this will be super helpful!
Thanks a lot!! :D
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On November 09 2011 09:34 shlood wrote:
I can't get it to work for me. Anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
If you are on Snow Leopard then it won't work until I upload a new build tonight
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On November 09 2011 09:44 Ripper62 wrote:nice , but how do I uninstall it afterwards?
Remove SC2Look.qlgenerator from ~/Library/QuickLook
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Looks really cool :D
I will try to break it and let you know what I think.
Next step... spacebar starts a preview of the replay! 
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New version uploaded, same link and installation instructions as in original post. Now 10.6 compatible and should be noticeably faster. You still need a 64-bit processor, but it's hard to find a Mac without one these days, especially one that runs Starcraft.
Edit: When I first posted this the new version wasn't uploaded yet. Now it is.
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Quick Look plugins can also make thumbnails, so I think it would be cool to show a preview of the map as the thumbnail. Trouble is I don't think replays include a map thumbnail. I hope I'm wrong. If not, any ideas for what would be a cool thumbnail?
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On November 09 2011 11:31 brisywisy wrote:
Quick Look plugins can also make thumbnails, so I think it would be cool to show a preview of the map as the thumbnail. Trouble is I don't think replays include a map thumbnail. I hope I'm wrong. If not, any ideas for what would be a cool thumbnail?
No idea about the map thing. For 1v1s it would be cool to show the race icons, one icon top left, one icon bottom right, something like that. But that obviously doesn't work as well in games with more people.
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