I wouldn't be doing it 'willy-nilly', I would only do it if necessary and the code would serve only one sole purpose. However, you are correct in saying that it does not seem that it is possible the way I have been hoping to do it and so I will have to try and find some other way.
On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:55, Mike Abdullah wrote: > It is not possible this way. You should not inject your code willy-nilly into > other apps. > > On 9 Aug 2011, at 13:48, Joshua Garnham wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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/). > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com > > > > (mailto: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 > > > > (http://lists.apple.com/) > > > > > > > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net > > > > > > > > This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net > > > > (mailto:cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net) > > > _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
