Is there a way to access OSX System Dictionary programmatically? [duplicate] - objective-c

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Using Objective-C and the Cocoa API, how can I search the OSX System Dictionary definition of "dog" and retrieve the results so I can display them?

You can use the DictionaryServices framework to get definitions from the active system dictionaries as text (CFString), or to show a dictionary window with the definition.

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In Objective-C on macOS, the method [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] runningApplications] can be used to get a list of the running applications on the system.
However, per Apple's documentation, the order of applications in the returned array is undefined.
I'd like to get a list of the running applications in the order in which they would appear if the user were to press Cmd+Tab; that is, in the "Z-order" of how recently each application was the frontmost application.
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I'm a newbie in programming and now I'm learning yii framework and it's really hard.
What does this declaration mean :
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What does it actually means?
And do you guys have a recommendation for learning yii framework other than Larry Ullman's?
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That is the part of language(PHP), also called scope resolution (::). Not only with YII, its common to all PHP framework. Please go with some PHP language manual first, its tutorials. Then only you will be comfortable with any PHP framework like YII.

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is it possible to use live tiles inside a page? I know how to configure tiles for start menu, but I don't know how to obtain a similar effect inside my app. Thank you
You can use the LiveTile control that comes with Callisto.
You could create the effect within an application, but the specific mechanism used for the Start screen is not directly available within the context of an application.
From another post in StackOverflow, you may be able to reuse/port code from the Windows Phone 7 toolkit. There's a number of applications in the Windows Store as well (search for "tile") that provide interfaces for designing tiles, and some may have incorporated similar functionality.
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There is also the appledoc tool available from GitHub. Makes nice docsets.