Hi,

You might want to look into pyHook (google for it - I don't have a
link right now).

Another option that might be much easier is to setup a global hotkey,
where the user selects the word, and clicks the hotkey (and you pop up
a window at that point with the translation(s).  You could probably
use WM_COPY to get teh text into teh clipboard and then get it from
there using your app (though it would be good manners to save teh
existing data first :-) ).

Mark

On 4/18/06, Tim Roberts <timr@[...].com>  wrote:
>  On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:54:14 +0200, Dao Duy Huy <dao@[...].de> wrote:
> 
>  >I'm  writing  a dictionary german <> vietnamese for free use, which
>  >should react on the mouse-click like babylon.
>  >You click on a german word in any win-program and the dict program will
>  >show you the translation in vietnamese and vice versa.
>  >
>  >But i couldn't find the way how i can select the word with the mouse
>  >position...
>  >
>  >Can you show me how you solve the problem?
>  >
> 
> 
>  This is a difficult problem to solve, and it may be that Python is not
>  the right language for it.
> 
>  You first have to figure out which window contains the point you want.
>  Then, you have to figure out what KIND of window that is (text box, rich
>  text control, static text, list box, custom control).  Then, you use
>  THAT knowledge to decide how to ask the control to translate the X,Y
>  coordinate into a row and column position.  Then, you can fetch the
>  whole contents of that window, find the exact character, and work
>  backwards and forwards to find the word boundaries.  Note that for some
>  applications (like Word), you will have to use Word APIs to do this.
> 
>  It is complicted.  You will want to do a lot of web searching to see if
>  you can find some good sample code.
> 
>  --
>  Tim Roberts, timr@[...].com
>  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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