Providing QuickLook with an Image from ui.Image

[Austin Ares]

Is it at all possible to provide console.quicklook() with not a file path, but a ui.Image or PIL.Image object? I am not knowledgeable enough with ObjC to do this myself.

[omz]

@Austin-Ares You'd have to save your image to a temporary file to useconsole.quicklook(). Here's an example of a function that takes a PIL or ui image, saves it to a temporary file, shows the quicklook preview, and then deletes the file (no ObjC needed):

import console
import ui
from PIL import Image
import os

def quicklook_img(img):
    tempfilename = '.ql_image.png'
    if isinstance(img, ui.Image):
        with open(tempfilename, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(img.to_png())
    elif isinstance(img, Image.Image):
        img.save(tempfilename)
    else:
        raise TypeError('Expected an image')
    console.quicklook(tempfilename)
    os.remove(tempfilename)

#Demo:
quicklook_img(Image.open('test:Peppers'))

[Austin Ares]

@omz Okay thank you anyways. It feels kind of "janky" but that's how it's going to have to work 😂

Good day,