Re: Know when text is edited in any app
Forget any notion of doing this for NSTextView I'd advise; Safari and Mail are based around WebViews. On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote: I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/). I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there. Thanks. Josh ___ 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/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net ___ 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
Re: Know when text is edited in any app
I'm not so bothered about Safari/Mail, I just used Safari as an example of what I wanted to do. I'd rather focus on doing it with NSTextView as that is what the majority of text editing apps use. I have - since I first asked the question - been using the Accessibility API's to find out information about a text view(s) in other apps, however my main target is to have access to the NSTextView's delegate methods specifically 'textView:didCheckTextInRange:types:options:results:orthography:wordCount:' to find out when auto-complete occurs. Whether or not this next step is possible, I am not sure. Josh On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:40, Mike Abdullah wrote: Forget any notion of doing this for NSTextView I'd advise; Safari and Mail are based around WebViews. On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote: I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/). I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there. Thanks. Josh ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com (mailto: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 (http://lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net (mailto:cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net) ___ 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
Re: Know when text is edited in any app
It is not possible this way. You should not inject your code willy-nilly into other apps. On 9 Aug 2011, at 13:48, Joshua Garnham wrote: I'm not so bothered about Safari/Mail, I just used Safari as an example of what I wanted to do. I'd rather focus on doing it with NSTextView as that is what the majority of text editing apps use. I have - since I first asked the question - been using the Accessibility API's to find out information about a text view(s) in other apps, however my main target is to have access to the NSTextView's delegate methods specifically 'textView:didCheckTextInRange:types:options:results:orthography:wordCount:' to find out when auto-complete occurs. Whether or not this next step is possible, I am not sure. Josh On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:40, Mike Abdullah wrote: Forget any notion of doing this for NSTextView I'd advise; Safari and Mail are based around WebViews. On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote: I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/). I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there. Thanks. Josh ___ 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/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net ___ 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
Re: Know when text is edited in any app
I wouldn't be doing it 'willy-nilly', I would only do it if necessary and the code would serve only one sole purpose. However, you are correct in saying that it does not seem that it is possible the way I have been hoping to do it and so I will have to try and find some other way. On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:55, Mike Abdullah wrote: It is not possible this way. You should not inject your code willy-nilly into other apps. On 9 Aug 2011, at 13:48, Joshua Garnham wrote: I'm not so bothered about Safari/Mail, I just used Safari as an example of what I wanted to do. I'd rather focus on doing it with NSTextView as that is what the majority of text editing apps use. I have - since I first asked the question - been using the Accessibility API's to find out information about a text view(s) in other apps, however my main target is to have access to the NSTextView's delegate methods specifically 'textView:didCheckTextInRange:types:options:results:orthography:wordCount:' to find out when auto-complete occurs. Whether or not this next step is possible, I am not sure. Josh On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 13:40, Mike Abdullah wrote: Forget any notion of doing this for NSTextView I'd advise; Safari and Mail are based around WebViews. On 8 Aug 2011, at 19:47, Joshua Garnham wrote: I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/). I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there. Thanks. Josh ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com (mailto: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 (http://lists.apple.com/) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net (mailto:cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net) ___ 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
Know when text is edited in any app
I need to know when text is entered (or anything relating to a delegate method happens) in any NSTextView in the active app whether it's my app, TextEdit or Safari. Similar to this app here (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/). I'm not sure how exactly to go about this and the only thing I have thought of so far is becoming a service but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go about it and even so where I'd go from there. Thanks. Josh ___ 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
