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Subject: Capturing mouse actions
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Date: 26 Mar 91 15:29:02 GMT
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   Does anyone know how I can capture the mouse's selecting a text area
by highlighting.  When the user selects some text, I would like to make
available an option to call up Webster to define the word.  Calling up
Webster is no problem; it's knowing when the Webster option should be
enabled by seeing if the user has highlighted a word with the mouse.  I
think mouseUp, mouseDown, ... might do the trick but not sure how to use
them.  Also, if mouseUp, ... do need to be re-implemented, where should that
be done - as a subclass of Text.  If this is so, can the Text object inside
the ScrollView from the Interface Builder palette have its class changed
to this new subclass via Interface Builder?

Thanks.