Hola! For windows shortcut overrides try WinKey (http://download.com.com/3000-2344-913626.html?tag=lst-0-1). I use it a lot with other programs (e.g. winkey-r brings up IRB :). For language services look at: http://www.google.com/language_tools http://www.verbix.com/languages/spanish.shtml (spanish verbs) http://www.diccionarios.com (english-spanish) www.dict.org (english-english only) For a professional commercial solution that you might be interested in, visit www.babylon.com. HTH, Assaph -----Original Message----- From: Ronnie Bermejo [mailto:xarek / spymac.com] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 7:58 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: [HOWTO] -Set Key Sequence/Shortcut WINDOWS /Hello Ruby fans/ I'm working in an small project to create a translation machine ( basically English<->Spanish ) I'd love to call this program with a 'Key-Sequence shortcut' on Window$, I have found some ways to do it but I am wondering if there's a ruby way to set the shortcut . THE IDEA IS: 1 - Ctrl-C [ love ] 2 - Key Sequence [Ctrl-Alt Z ] 3 - Ctrl-V [amor] class TranslateClipBoard include BabelFish require "win32/clipboard" def initialize paste(translate(copy)) end def copy clp = Win32::Clipboard.data return clp end def paste(data) Win32::Clipboard.data = data end def translate(text) res = BabelFish.translate("en_es",text) return res end end class SetShortCut # ???????? end *could you recommend me a (SOAP/XML) free translation service on the web to suck the data from ? Thanks -> Gracias ---- Msg sent via Spymac Mail - http://www.spymac.com