Workflow preset
Quick Look & Finder Preview: layout for Mac
Quick Look & Finder Preview can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Preview, browse, and open files in Finder with a controller.
Get the preset in two clicks
- Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
- Search for Quick Look & Finder Preview and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
- Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.
The full button map
| Controller | Sends | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A / Cross | Space | A: Quick Look preview / toggle (Space) |
| B / Circle | Escape | B: close preview / cancel (Esc) |
| Y / Triangle | Alt / Option (Left), Space | Y: full-screen Quick Look (Opt+Space) |
| X / Square | Command (Left), O | X: open with default app (Cmd+O) |
| D-pad left | Left | Previous item (Left arrow) |
| D-pad right | Right | Next item (Right arrow) |
| D-pad up | Up | Move up in list (Up arrow) |
| D-pad down | Down | Move down in list (Down arrow) |
| Left stick left | Left | Left stick left: previous item (Left) |
| Left stick right | Right | Left stick right: next item (Right) |
| Left stick up | Up | Left stick up: move up (Up) |
| Left stick down | Down | Left stick down: move down (Down) |
| LB / L1 | Command (Left), Up | LB: open enclosing folder (Cmd+Up) |
| RB / R1 | Command (Left), Down | RB: open selected folder/item (Cmd+Down) |
| Start / Options | Return | Start: confirm in dialogs / rename in Finder (Return) |
| Back / Share / Select | Alt / Option (Left), Command (Left), Y | Back: Quick Look slideshow (Opt+Cmd+Y) |
| Right stick right | Scroll up | Right stick down: scroll preview down |
| Right stick left | Scroll down | Right stick up: scroll preview up |
| L3 (left stick click) | Left click | L3: left click |
| R3 (right stick click) | Right click | R3: right click / context menu |
| Right trigger | Command (Left), Down | Right trigger: open selected item (Cmd+Down) |
| Left trigger | Escape | Left trigger: close / Esc |
Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.
Tips
- A toggles Quick Look on the selected file and the D-pad or left stick steps through a folder, so you can flip through images like a gallery.
- Use the shoulders to move between folders: LB jumps to the enclosing folder and RB opens the highlighted one, with Esc on B to back out.
Make it yours
Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.
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