I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor. - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/ - http://github.com/jessegrosjean/quickcursor
The idea is to replace the input manage based "edit in" features with a generic program that provides the same feature, but using public API's instead of input manage hacks. Right now QuickCursor works through the accessibility api to read/write text from the target app. This works well for many apps (ones that expose their text as a single writable string attribute to the accessibility api), but not all apps do that. And as a result QuickCursor doesn't work everywhere. And so I'm looking for an alternative idea. The accessibility api also has a problem that it seems to mess up the undo stack in some programs. Someone suggested that I use AppleEvents to automate select all/copy/paste out of and then back into the target app. That would seem to be a greate approach, but I'm not sure how to do it. Is there anyone on this list who would be willing to help? Via the accessibility API I can get/set the current process and the current focused element. But then I need help sending an apple event to select all, and copy the text. And on the return trip I need help pasting in new text. Thanks, Jesse _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
