Re: Access to Rich-Text in MS Word X
Re: Access to Rich-Text in MS Word X
- Subject: Re: Access to Rich-Text in MS Word X
- From: Ralph Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:39:56 -0700
On Windows it's very easy to manipulate the text in a Word document
using the COM interface. Unfortunately I don't know if the Office
automation interfaces are available through COM on MacOS.
It does look like you can get to Office through AppleScript:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/resources.aspx?pid=asforoffice
Ralph
On 5/18/05, Chen Wang <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Does anybody know whether some popular commercial word processors such
> as Ms Word X and Pages of iWork are FULLY access-enabled on Maciontosh?
> Description of my question is as follow:
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> I am going to develop an assistive application that works tightly with
> Ms Word X. One basic function of this app is extracting texts from and
> injecting texts back into the rich-text area of Ms Word. The first idea
> comes to me is using Accessibility APIs. But I found that both
> Accessibility Inspector and UI Broswer are failed in finding the correct
> UI Element which holds rich-text in its body, and has useful attributes
> such as AXValue, AXSelectedText and AXSelectedTextRange. I was also
> frustrated in test with Pages of iWork.
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> To confirm my guess, I also tried to use the system built-in
> screen-reader (VoiceOver). Unfortunately, it could not read the texts
> shown in Ms Word's edit area. The same as Pages of iWork.
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> Now I am wondering if it is possible to access texts in these commercial
> word processors from cocoa/carbon code?
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> Any suggestion will be highly appreciated, thanks.
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> Chen
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