I don't have specific knowledge but, yes, I would expect that the
dictionary support is a trusted part of the OS, thus can be hooked
into every application.
As far as I know, if you want to touch another application's UI, you
have to go through accessibility. From the OS's point of view yours
is just another application, so it seems reasonable that the user
should decide whether or not to allow your application to see what's
going on in another.
steve
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Ryan Homer wrote:
Let me clarify that it doesn't seem to be the Dictionary
application that's reading the word at the mouse pointer but rather
the OS itself or some daemon, perhaps, when Ctrl-Option-D is
pressed. It might be the process called DictionaryPanel that seems
to always be running.
Anyway, if anyone can point me to the appropriate functions/methods/
classes that might be involved in doing such a thing w/o the
aforementioned techniques, please let me know.
On 28-Feb-08, at 8:27 PM, Ryan Homer wrote:
I've read this post (http://lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-
dev/2006/Aug/msg00007.html) about using the accessibility options
to read the text under the cursor. However, this requires that the
user enable access for assistive devices in System Preferences.
The application must therefore check for that. It also seems quite
complicated; I don't want to have to deal with glyphs and the like
- I only want the text under the cursor, full stop.
The Dictionary application is able to read a word under the cursor
without enabling access for assistive devices.
Does anyone therefore know of an alternative way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
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