Increasing Adium Accessibility

[Peter Hosey]

On Dec 17, 2010, at 19:28:12, Michael Schade wrote:
> - [An Adium plug-in] would allow people to have their text automatically accentuated when they press return, rather than having to select all of the text, use the keyboard shortcut, and then send the message, which would be tedious if you typed often

True.

What if the plug-in simply invoked the Service? The Service would remain available for use in all applications, and the plug-in would enable automatic use of it in Adium.

> - The Services menu cannot be dynamically populated, so we are unable to send updated lists of languages and would have to hard code them all.

Another good point, but this can be mitigated: Mac OS X includes two APIs for detecting languages.

Documentation:

10.6+: <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSSpellChecker_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSSpellChecker/checkString:range:types:options:inSpellDocumentWithTag:orthography:wordCount:>
10.5+: <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringTokenizerRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/CFStringTokenizerCopyBestStringLanguage>

So, you can try guessing the language the user wrote in, and if it fails (as can happen for text not long enough to nail down a single language), use the user's default language, or perhaps the same language as last time.