Have you looked at building an input method? IMKit On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Nava Carmon wrote:
> 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/jjoyce%40apple.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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]
