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From: support@beiks.com
Date: 20 Feb 2002
The inability to select words from certain applications has nothing to do with how the switching mechanism is implemented - whether as a regular hack, as an X-hack or just the way it is.
Selecting a word is function of the reader program being used and how exactly displaying words is implemented in it. Programs that use standard PalmOS components allow other programs to pick up the word; programs that use proprietary means of displaying text (e.g. own fonts, own drawing routines) are "program unfriendly" and will not allow other programs to automatically pick content from them, regardless of the implementation (well, one might consider directly scanning the screen and doing some sort of character recognition, but that's too much to ask for with the current device capabilities).