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Hi Folks,

I often write simple apps to do repetitive tasks (eg: removing the annoying line breaks you get when you copy PDF text). Many of these are text based apps. I'm also a user of Macspeech Dictate which as an RSI sufferer is very useful. However, my Revolution apps don't respond to text input from Dictate for some reason.

Any thoughts about why this might be, or how I might overcome it?

Jim H

Hi Jim,

I suspect that MacDictate works with Cocoa applications only, i.e. Finder, Mail, and TextEdit, but not with OpenOffice, Terminal, and Revolution.

You can, however, create an AppleScript command, which a) opens a new TextEdit file, b) let's you enter text, and c) copies it to a field in Revolution. An even nicer solution might be to use Automator to show a text box or to create a simple application in XCode using AppleScript.

Best,

Mark