On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: > I want to enable the user to hilite any text on the screen go to that menu > item and capture the hilited text for my program.
This sounds more like a job for a 'Service' - which is what other developers do. Your biggest problem is that most Mac users are unaware that such Services exist. Unlike your solution, which would be available even when text is not selected, Services are contextual and therefore only appear at the appropriate moment. On my Mac when I open any semi-text document (Reminders, Preview, iPhoto, or non-Apple; BBEdit, Valentina Studio, Delicious Library...) and select nothing there are NO Services available, but as soon as I select text then 8 Services become available including 'Append Selection to BBEdit Scratchpad' and 'New BBEdit Document with Selection' - sounds similar to what you are trying to achieve. You can easily create your own Services using a combination of Automator, AppleScript and Shell commands. This article might help, but you can easily google others: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/03/howto-build-mac-os-x-services-with-automator-and-shell-scripting/ It's a pitty the LC IDE itself doesn't come with any Services of it's own as it would be a good starting point to plagiarise. HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
