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

FROM : Andreas Monitzer
DATE : Fri Feb 29 03:27:22 2008

On Feb 29, 2008, at 02:33, Ryan Homer wrote:

> 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.


Maybe you're looking for services? They're right in the application 
menu. They can do a lot of very nifty things, unfortunately they're 
very under-appreciated since they got moved one level down...

andy