> Hi George, > What you want to do would is within another's application. > Any public hooks/APIs could be used... > In this case VB and AppleScript. > For deeper, Cocoa-based integration, you would probably need to work with > Microsoft. > Couldn't hurt to try contacting them... > > The means mentioned earlier are from within your own application. > > You might also look into building an app/tool as a Service...
Hi John Thanks for the answer The problem is that AppleScript allows to discover the caret's position only relatively to the page's left-top corner, while there is no way to determine that "page's left-top corner" absolute position. Thus, i can't place my popup window where the caret is located. I am pretty sure, Visual Basic doesn't give much more possibilities (AFAIK, VB and AS operate on the same core API, which is closed to public). And about "For deeper, Cocoa-based integration, you would probably need to work with Microsoft". What do you mean by working with Microsoft? I am not sure, but as far as i know, they don't give out this low level API to 3d party developers? And how could i contact them? Perhaps some of Microsoft Office developers are looking through this mailing list. Is there a place where i could find information about who and on what conditions could get that mac:Office Word SDK APIs? >You might also look into building an app/tool as a Service... but what advantages does building as service has comparing to an ordinary external Cocoa application? Thanks, George _______________________________________________ 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
