On 10 September 2010 16:31, Jjgod Jiang wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:47 PM, björn wrote:
>> As a temporary solution I was thinking of adding a "Look Up in
>> Dictionary" entry to the context menu so that you can at least
>> right-click to look something up in the dictionary.  I just have to
>> figure out if there is some Apple Script-way of doing this so that I
>> can hook up "osascript" to do it.  (I get the impression that the only
>> way to interact with Dictionary.app is via Services.)
>
> Have you looked at -showDefinitionForAttributedString:atPoint:? It's
> available since 10.6, see "Displaying dictionary contents" section
> in [1].
>
> - Jiang
>
> [1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html

Thanks for the link!  I was unaware of that method.

Björn

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