On Mar 21, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Тимофей Даньшин wrote:
Well, I'm writing a "translation memory" application, which is a program that grabs sentence by sentence from a given text (that needs translating), asks the user to translate that sentence and stores the translation and the original in a database. If the user comes across the same sentence again in the future, he or she will not need to translate it again. I thought i would take the TextEdit app as the text editing part of my project, but as I wrote the database management and the search parts, it turned out that TextEdit is not capable of correctly interpreting word files or RTF's (ie it ignores footnotes, headers/ footers and a lot of other stuff). That is why I am trying to find out how i can communicate with Word or Pages. As far as what I would want from an AppleScript (if I were to use AppleScript) is to be able to receive notifications from Word when, for example, the user has hit a certain key combination, to know where the insertion point (or selection) is in Word and to receive notifications when it moves, to be notified when a user is trying to edit something and prevent him/her from doing so if that part of the text should not be edited. Receiving those notifications, that script would just redirect them to my application and receive responses to them and redirect them to Word.
It is rare to find applications that provide notifications, and almost unheard of for them to provide notifications of minor events such as text edits. You certainly won't get the sort of notifications you describe from TextEdit, Word or Pages. ISTR a third-party tool that allows you to attach AppleScripts to the GUI objects of another application, but that sort of thing is inherently hackish, prone to breakage, and liable not to go down too well with increasingly security conscious software and users. I suspect your best bet would be to poll the application, bearing in mind that might create its own issues (e.g. performance/responsiveness).
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