Re: Know when text is edited in any app
Re: Know when text is edited in any app
- Subject: Re: Know when text is edited in any app
- From: Joshua Garnham <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:48:35 +0100
I'm not so bothered about Safari/Mail, I just used Safari as an example of what I wanted to do. I'd rather focus on doing it with NSTextView as that is what the majority of text editing apps use.
I have - since I first asked the question - been using the Accessibility API's to find out information about a text view(s) in other apps, however my main target is to have access to the NSTextView's delegate methods specifically 'textView:didCheckTextInRange:types:options:results:orthography:wordCount:' to find out when auto-complete occurs.
Whether or not this next step is possible, I am not sure.
Josh
On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:40, Mike Abdullah wrote:
> Forget any notion of doing this for NSTextView I'd advise; Safari and Mail are based around WebViews.
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> On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote:
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> > I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/).
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> > I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there.
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> > Thanks.
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> > Josh
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