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

FROM : Ryan Homer
DATE : Sun Mar 02 15:18:47 2008

Well, if you are referring to the Services sub-menu that is 
automatically part of Cocoa applications' menus with the same name as 
the application (Eg: Mail -> Services, Safari -> Services, etc.), it 
seems to me that those services are only executed when invoked by the 
user. However, I want my application to be able to react to just the 
mouse pointer moving over a word.

On 28-Feb-08, at 9:27 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> 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
>
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