They want services as an option, not as main workflow. What about simulating keyboard events? Should it work better than apple script?
On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > > On 2011 Sep 12, at 22:01, Nava Carmon wrote: > >> My application intercepts clicks/key down events and brings the text from >> the frontmost application to my application on catching a certain key >> sequence. Then it evaluates it and pastes fixed text back to the >> application, that was frontmost. >> >> I tried using accessibility APIs, but not all applications support it. >> AppleScript seems to be the universal solution in this case, since it's >> mostly simulates copy & paste key sequences, but may be there are another >> technologies, that can be used for this purpose. Are you aware of something >> more robust? > > Mac OS X "Services" (a terribly ambiguous name) are more robust, but require > the user to click your menu item. > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/introduction.html > > Beyond that, I think you need to go into system hacksterism, which I don't > know how to do. There are apps that do text expansion, which seems to be > what you'r describing, but I've never even used them and have no idea how > they work. > > Anyone else out there have any idea? > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/ncarmon%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] Nava Carmon [email protected] "Think good and it will be good!" _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
