Re: How to support dictionary service in a custom text view?

2008-07-08 Thread Evan Gross
On 08/07/08 12:16 AM, "Charles Srstka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but I think this check box is not relevant to this functionality. > At any rate, my accessibility methods get called when I type command- > control-D, whether the check box is turned on or not. If I comment out > my Access

Re: How to support dictionary service in a custom text view?

2008-07-07 Thread Evan Gross
On 07/07/08 11:14 PM, "Charles Srstka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you're referring to with regards to "accessibility off". If > you are referring to the "Allow access for assistive devices" check box in > the Universal Access preference pane, that isn't what I was talking ab

Re: How to support dictionary service in a custom text view?

2008-07-07 Thread Evan Gross
ssibility off? My product (well, the new version I'm working on) makes heavy use of the same TSM and AX APIs that the Dictionary service uses (and a few other). I'd be very interested to see a custom NSView that's not derived from NSTextView that supports these APIs

Re: How is "Apple + Ctrl + D" implemented?

2008-04-30 Thread Evan Gross
e Dictionary service. (/System/Library/Components/DictionaryService.component) Maybe it's time to file an enhancement request... Evan Gross -- Evan Gross, President, Rainmaker Research Inc. Developers of Macintosh and Windows Software Spell Catcher for Mac

Re: How is "Apple + Ctrl + D" implemented?

2008-04-28 Thread Evan Gross
m the underlying document. If you look closely, the results are often slightly different with Universal Access on vs. off. It does not use any Cocoa APIs (as suggested in some other replies) for this purpose. Reading up on TSM and input method components is the proper starting point for wha

Re: Reading word at mouse pointer w/o Universal Access

2008-03-03 Thread Evan Gross
upport both - perhaps not perfectly, but well enough. If your requirements are that this must work anywhere, with any app, forget it. Try to get the Dictionary popup to do anything in MS Word, for example... Hope that helps, Evan Gross -- Evan Gross, President, Rainmaker Research In