Re: Detecting text under mouse

2009-06-14 Thread Mr. George Warner
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:57:21 +1000, Jacob Rhoden wrote: > That is exactly what I am looking for, a "Dictionary" application is > essentially assisting you with being able to read information on the > screen. Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation at all on how to > access a programs a

Re: Detecting text under mouse

2009-06-13 Thread Greg Guerin
Jacob Rhoden wrote: Does anyone know where I might find information on how to detect the accessability information under the mouse cursor? Search with the word spelled "accessibility", not "accessability". http://developer.apple.com/search/search.html There are only 2 hits with the missp

Re: Detecting text under mouse

2009-06-13 Thread Rob Keniger
On 14/06/2009, at 2:57 PM, Jacob Rhoden wrote: That is exactly what I am looking for, a "Dictionary" application is essentially assisting you with being able to read information on the screen. Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation at all on how to access a programs accessable infor

Re: Detecting text under mouse

2009-06-13 Thread Jacob Rhoden
That is exactly what I am looking for, a "Dictionary" application is essentially assisting you with being able to read information on the screen. Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation at all on how to access a programs accessable information! The only information I can find are pages an

re: Detecting text under mouse

2009-06-13 Thread Mr. George Warner
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:48:19 +1000, Jacob Rhoden wrote: > Is it possible to write an application that tracks the mouse over any > application and reads the contents of the text that is under the mouse? > I would like to develop an application that provides context sensitive > translation a