A QLPreview object, or Quick Look preview controller, provides a specialized view for previewing an item. To display a Quick Look preview controller you have two options: You can push it into view using a UINavigation object, or can present it modally, full screen, using the present method of its parent class, UIView.
SDK
- iOS 4.0+
Framework
- QuickLook
Overview
A displayed preview includes a title taken from the last path component of the item URL. You can override this by implementing a preview accessor for the preview item.
A Quick Look preview controller can display previews for the following items:
iWork documents
Microsoft Office documents (Office ‘97 and newer)
Rich Text Format (RTF) documents
PDF files
Images
Text files whose uniform type identifier (UTI) conforms to the
publictype (see Uniform Type Identifiers Reference).text Comma-separated value (csv) files
To use a Quick Look preview controller, you must provide a data source object. The data source provides preview items to the controller and tells it how many items to include in a preview navigation list. If there is more than one item in the list, a modally-presented (that is, full-screen) controller displays navigation arrows to let the user switch among the items. For a Quick Look preview controller pushed using a navigation controller, you can provide buttons in the navigation bar for moving through the navigation list.
For details on providing items to a preview controller, refer to QLPreview and QLPreviewItem Protocol Reference.