Get selected text from non-cocoa application

Subject: Get selected text from non-cocoa application
From: Rounak Jain <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:53:19 +0530
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ThisService can take text from front application and process it. (http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=106211#p106211) But it does not seem to work on non-cocoa applications like Firefox. I tried to write a script like on process(input) set input to...... on error e tell app "System events" to keystroke "c" using command down ........ but that does not work. Maybe, because the error occurs in the first line "on process(input)" and the script does not proceed. Does anyone know about an alternative way to get text from front application so as to process it? Thanks

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