Re: Text Capture in Cocoa
Re: Text Capture in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Text Capture in Cocoa
- From: Yaogang Lian <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:15:34 -0400
Thanks for reply, John.
The accessibility API is quite useful for grabbing info from UI
elements, but it seems to
be unable to grab a single word. For example, when I point the mouse
to a word
in a web page, the accessibility API returns either all the texts in
a paragraph or selected
texts. I hope to be able to grab a single word without actually
selecting it. This seems to
be a more tricky task.
Yaogang
On Jun 15, 2006, at 7:57 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:
On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Yaogang Lian wrote:
Hi all,
I am developing a dictionary and want to support text capture
using the mouse.
I want to hover the mouse over any text on the screen (be it on a
button, on a web page,
in a document, or in Finder), and capture that word in my program,
then translate it.
For a real feeling, just try Apple's own dictionary: hover your
mouse over any word
in a document or web page, and press "Apple + Ctrl + D", a
floating panel will appear and
show the explanation of the word. That's the behavior I want to
implement.
Is there any Cocoa API that I can use to grab the word under the
mouse? Do I need to
intercept the drawing APIs? How can I do it?
Any advice is appreciated.
I think what you want is in the accessibility API.
-jcr
"The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken
seriously." - Hubert Humphrey
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