Take a
look at the dictionary add-on.. It performs a lookup and displays the
information to the user via a small popup window above the
toolbar.
Monty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ronan Cremin
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:40 AM
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Subject: [DQSD-Users] Ticker-tape functionality for DQSDI often find myself not using DQSD simply because of the fact that it opens a browser, and displays a lot more information than I am really looking for. As an example of this, if I am using the currency conversion function, I'd rather not see all of the additional XE.com branding etc. Similarly, if I am looking up a word, or want to do a translation of a piece of text, I'd rather not see the Babelfish or Mirriam Webster branding -- I just want the text result to paste in somewhere else.With this in mind, how about a ticker-tape mode of operation in DQSD where certain searches would support simple plain text responses that would get pushed onto a little results window (in the same style as the quick reference window that you get when you press the >> button), arranged like a printing calculator e.g.1 USD > EUR 1 USD = 0.922636 EURbabel /from:es /to:en cabra goat$MSFT 28.14I realise that this is often difficult to do, because it means DQSD would have to scrape results from pages, but this is not always difficult e.g. in the case of Babelfish the result of a translation is neatly labelled with a CSS style that isn't used anywhere else in the page, making it easy to pull out using a regular _expression_.Regards,Ronan
