Hover translation boxes in OS X
mrdtait
January 07, 2008, 05:36 PM posted in General DiscussionI know for firefox there are some addons which will give translations for words when you hover your mouse over the word but is there something that does the same for the entire system in OS X - Leopard?
My friend has such a thing in Windows but I cant bare to use Windows so I need it to work in Leopard.
Any suggestions are appreciated
sweetwatermelon9
January 07, 2008, 10:18 PMUse Wenlin - great software. Expensive, but worth every penny.
AuntySue
January 08, 2008, 05:44 AMWill Wenlin do what was asked in the original question? (As far as I know it doesn't.) Or are you just recommending the program in general?
AuntySue
January 08, 2008, 05:47 AMOops that wasn't meant to sound like I was waving my finger at you. I'm really trying to sort out whether or not this Wenlin will translate hanzi by hovering the mouse over any application at all that is running under Mac OS X.
sweetwatermelon9
January 08, 2008, 08:02 AMhovering will show translation etc in the lower area of the screen...
AuntySue
January 08, 2008, 11:00 AM... within the Wenlin program. Is there any program that will do the same thing within the Textedit screen, the Finder screen, the Preview screen, the Apple Mail screen, the iCal screen, the Stickies screen, the Skype screen, the Terminal screen, and the AppleWorks screen, all at the same time?
goulnik
January 08, 2008, 11:12 AMas AuntySue said, Wenlin only does this within itself, not across all apps. What I do is have a very simple html page with a text box (textarea form field) I copy text into, ChinesePera-kun then picks it up from there. Doesn't even need any of the Javascript massaging I use for fancier jobs.
AuntySue
January 07, 2008, 06:19 PMI've been looking for something similar for Mac OS X Tiger, but found nothing. Unfortunately StarDict, which works a treat under BSD Unix, cannot be made to work on Mac. When the text can be copied, I either paste it into DimSum which gives the mouseovers instantly, or into a text field in a web page (like this add comment box) where I can use PeraKun before erasing the text. Otherwise, it's Google translation time, or the Dashboard translation dictionary. It's really annoying when text chatting in Skype if there's a couple of characters that I can't get, because copying and pasting into another window takes too long.