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I was just browsing through some of the features apple's new tiger operating system. One of the features I found was the invocation of the dictionary feature implemented in Tiger. Essentially, one would place their mouse on top of a word they are interested in and they simply hold down CTRL-COMMAND-D this fires the dictionary window displaying the definition of the word in question.

This link gives a good description :
http://a1408.g.akamai.net/7/1408/7780/20050429/www.mac.com/st/1/learningcenter20050429/pdf/tiger/Tiger_Definitions.pdf

Being new to windows programming, I was wondering how could I go about mimicking such a feature in windows. For starters the dictionary application could listen for certain keypress event with a keycombination such as CTRL-SHIFT-ATL-D. One thing I can't quite figure out is that how is it possible to pass the selected text from any application into the dictionary window.

Any feedback will be appreciated.
thanks
Vee
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