Re: Reading word at mouse pointer w/o Universal Access
Re: Reading word at mouse pointer w/o Universal Access
- Subject: Re: Reading word at mouse pointer w/o Universal Access
- From: Ryan Homer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:33:27 -0500
Let me clarify that it doesn't seem to be the Dictionary application
that's reading the word at the mouse pointer but rather the OS itself
or some daemon, perhaps, when Ctrl-Option-D is pressed. It might be
the process called DictionaryPanel that seems to always be running.
Anyway, if anyone can point me to the appropriate functions/methods/
classes that might be involved in doing such a thing w/o the
aforementioned techniques, please let me know.
On 28-Feb-08, at 8:27 PM, Ryan Homer wrote:
I've read this post (http://lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-dev/2006/Aug/msg00007.html
) about using the accessibility options to read the text under the
cursor. However, this requires that the user enable access for
assistive devices in System Preferences. The application must
therefore check for that. It also seems quite complicated; I don't
want to have to deal with glyphs and the like - I only want the text
under the cursor, full stop.
The Dictionary application is able to read a word under the cursor
without enabling access for assistive devices.
Does anyone therefore know of an alternative way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
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