Steve,
While I agree that the user should decide whether or not to allow the
application to access another's text, to me, that's exactly what they
are doing if they decide to use the application. It is going to be a
dictionary-type application, so if the user installs it, s/he would be
fully aware that its use would entail moving the mouse pointer over a
word in another application. The application would be just about
useless without that feature - so might as well delete it if you don't
want that feature. It's just that I don't want to require that the
user have to enable access for assistive devices. The first time I
came across that, I was hesitant to enable that without knowing more
about it and how many more services I would be keeping running all the
time in the background, etc. This made me hesitant to even use the
application that wanted to turn this on.
On 28-Feb-08, at 8:59 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:
I don't have specific knowledge but, yes, I would expect that the
dictionary support is a trusted part of the OS, thus can be hooked
into every application.
As far as I know, if you want to touch another application's UI, you
have to go through accessibility. From the OS's point of view yours
is just another application, so it seems reasonable that the user
should decide whether or not to allow your application to see what's
going on in another.
steve
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:33 PM, 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.
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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