Is it possible to build a WinForm app (or another type of .NET app) which allows me to interact with

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Published on 2010-03-22T06:15:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 6:21 UTC
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I'm learning Chinese at the moment and I have gotten my hand on a Chinese dictionary definition.

Now I would like to make an interface.

All I really want the application to do is when I point my mouse pointer over any text on the screen (in any window), it would identify the text I am pointing at and then display a small form over it, which would the chinese transaction.

Is that possible to do? Can WinForms apps interact with windows outside of it's own application?

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