Hi,
I am thinking of developing my own dictionary tool which can detects the word under the cursor and automatically (or when a modifier key is pressed) popup a translation window. After researching for a while, I find it more tricky than I estimated. The accessibility APIs may of help, but for text in a text view, the returned information is not enough to reproduce the layout and let me detect the "exact" word over which the mouse hovers. There is a similar functionality in Lepoard (I am not sure if it exists prior to 10.5): in any cocoa-based applications, if you press Apple + Ctrl + D, the current word under cursor is automatically selected and translated in a popup window. It seems to me not implemented with accessibility APIs as it does not require to enable access for assistive devices in the Universal Access System Preference panel. Then, how is this implemented? I want to get some hints from this. Thanks, -- B.Y. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
