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Re: Reading word at mouse pointer w/o Universal Access
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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: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:18:47 -0500

Well, if you are referring to the Services sub-menu that is automatically part of Cocoa applications' menus with the same name as the application (Eg: Mail -> Services, Safari -> Services, etc.), it seems to me that those services are only executed when invoked by the user. However, I want my application to be able to react to just the mouse pointer moving over a word.

On 28-Feb-08, at 9:27 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

On Feb 29, 2008, at 02:33, Ryan Homer wrote:

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.

Maybe you're looking for services? They're right in the application menu. They can do a lot of very nifty things, unfortunately they're very under-appreciated since they got moved one level down...


andy

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