How to use DictationServices.framework

Question

Mac 10.8 contains the private DictationServices.framework

It would never get approved in the App Store but just out of interest: How could one make use of its private classes, methods and messages?

root:~/DictationServices.framework$ strings DictationServices 

reveals the following:

• SOMicrophonePopUpButton SOMicrophoneView SOMicrophoneLevelMeterController SOEnableDictationPanelController SODictationHotKeyController SOEnableDictationDelegate

  logDictationFinished:serverError:

  com.apple.message.dictationstatus com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs

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Answer 1

Have you tried using class dump to extract the header files? It should just be a matter of including those headers in your project and linking to the framework.

Photima

thanks, class-dump is much nicer than otool -fahlLDtdorSTMRIHvVcXm ;} – Retaliate

nice, that gives all the methods in @interface SODictationPreferences ... however getting access to an instance of SODictationPreferences is probably not trivial.(?) Follow up question: How to set gdb breakpoints on private interface methods. – Retaliate

#11703885 – Retaliate