Re: How to get cursor text from a Mac window
Re: How to get cursor text from a Mac window
- Subject: Re: How to get cursor text from a Mac window
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:30:05 +0200
On 19.07.2008, at 14:00, Gang Chen wrote:
I am new to Cocoa and Mac dev, and I want to make a simple
dictionary program with Cocoa on MacOSX. Can anybody help and tell
me how to get any words on screen where cursor points in Cocoa?
Jean-Daniel Dupas replied:
Could you not simply use the built-in dictionary application ?
That said, to put anything on screen on OS X, you need a window and
a view. However, both of these can be almost or completely transparent/
borderless to give the illusion of the text being next to the cursor.
You can also create a menu bar-less application (See NSUIElement and
LSBGOnly) to present these windows.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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