Re: "hooking" into another app
Re: "hooking" into another app
- Subject: Re: "hooking" into another app
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:40:44 -0400
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Don Arnel <email@hidden> wrote:
> No...no...NO!
Alright. Now how about we take a few deep breaths, switch to decaf,
and try our social interaction again. This time without the attitude,
please.
> Re-read my message. If it was unclear, what I want to do is be able to log
> (record) text being written to a chat window from another app. NOT log key
> strokes. For example, how could I progmatically record an AIM chat
> conversation from my app?
Understood - in this case, it's unsupported system hack time, since
the Mac OS X world takes a different approach to security which means
you have to work a bit harder.
If you really want to do this, I'd recommend looking into
Application Enhancer. There's a fair amount of controversy about this
topic - and I have no intention of being drawn into yet another APE
debate thread - but it's the clearest path to what you're trying to
accomplish. You'd write an APE Module which could conceivably
intercept whatever you wish and forward it along.
The drawback to this is that if you don't write it perfectly, bad
(and weird) things can happen with every app into which it's injected.
You'll have to make some assumptions, etc. which can easily backfire
the next time the target application is updated by the user. This can
(rightly) upset people. Be warned.
--
I.S.
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