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

FROM : Ryan Homer
DATE : Fri Feb 29 02:33:27 2008

Let me clarify that it doesn't seem to be the Dictionary application 
that's reading the word at the mouse pointer but rather the OS itself 
or some daemon, perhaps, when  Ctrl-Option-D is pressed. It might be 
the process called DictionaryPanel that seems to always be running.

Anyway, if anyone can point me to the appropriate functions/methods/
classes that might be involved in doing such a thing w/o the 
aforementioned techniques, please let me know.

On 28-Feb-08, at 8:27 PM, Ryan Homer wrote:

> I've read this post (http://lists.apple.com/archives/accessibility-dev/2006/Aug/msg00007.html
> ) about using the accessibility options to read the text under the 
> cursor. However, this requires that the user enable access for 
> assistive devices in System Preferences. The application must 
> therefore check for that. It also seems quite complicated; I don't 
> want to have to deal with glyphs and the like - I only want the text 
> under the cursor, full stop.
>
> The Dictionary application is able to read a word under the cursor 
> without enabling access for assistive devices.
>
> Does anyone therefore know of an alternative way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.