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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: cynikal on May 03, '05 11:28:15AM

I am not sure if it really works with all cocoa apps. For example, Terminal.app is a cocoa app..

$ otool -L /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 11.0.0)

but cmd+ctrl+d doesn't work in it. What gives?



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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: adrianm on May 03, '05 11:37:41AM

AFAIK, it works in any WebCore view or NSTextView.
Terminal uses neither.



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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: Viridian on May 03, '05 12:44:57PM

Doesn't work in Safari either.



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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: Shawn Parr on May 03, '05 02:55:34PM
Hm, it works in Safari for me. Make sure you have a word highlighted if you want to use the contextual menu, otherwise the Dictionary option will not appear.

The command-control-D trick works as well.

I took a screenshot.

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Not in Safari for me
Authored by: captainhaddock on May 04, '05 03:14:06AM

I can't get it to work in Safari. Cmd-Ctrl-D does nothing. It does work in Textedit, however.



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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: bjmorgan on May 04, '05 11:52:59AM

I notice that if I move the Dictionary application elsewhere, then the functionality of this features is gone. Is there anyway around this?



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10.4: Use the Oxford Dictionary 'live'
Authored by: murali1080 on May 29, '05 01:20:09PM

Try creating an 'alias' or a link at the original location pointing to your new location...



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