Using native os text selection

[arpeggioaccele]

I was looking for a way to disable the text selection provided by the Calibre viewer using Qt, as I prefer using text selection in MacOS native dictionary/lookup functions when reading.

I was wondering if that would be possible— and if so where would I get started modifying the python code for the viewer?

If someone could give advice, I would be thankful.

Here is some more context/issues I thought of:
1. There might be issues with getting the correct options displayed in the MacOS context menu, but that is a completely different problem aside from Calibre.
2. The highlighting function would be broken, but I would be fine with that. Adding a toggle to allow highlighting might work though.
3. I don't think this is a feature many would want, I just want to figure out how to do it myself.
4. I have little python coding experience, I probably won't be able to do soon/quickly. It will be a long term project.

[Comfy.n]

FWIW, on Windows it took me a lot of searching to find a way to integrate the Viewer with Goldendict. GD has a Control+C+C special shortcut combination, but I wanted something mouse-driven.

So the only solution I found so far is using an AutoHotKey script together with the classic version of a mouse gesture program called StrokesPlus.

The AHK I need to keep running contains an action to clear the clipboard, copy selected text and send it to GD upon a acSendKeys("%^r") mouse gesture action over calibre-parallel.exe for StrokesPlus:

!^r:: 


  Clipboard := "" ; 
   SendInput, ^c
   ClipWait, 2
   
   
   if (Clipboard)
   {
       Run, c:\goldendict\goldendict.exe
       Sleep, 300
       SendInput, %Clipboard%
	   Sleep, 70
       SendInput, {Enter}
   }
return

This method works fine 95% of the time, but sometimes, for some reason, I have to right-click the script icon on systray and select "Reload this script"

[arpeggioaccele]

Thanks for the info!

[arpeggioaccele]

My simple solution: convert to pdf and read using a pdf viewer lol.