general annotation question and QQ-ZDT related

[Southernjohn]

Hi everyone- I posted a QQ question a while back, and I have gotten it up and running just fine.

My question is that for a long time I have been wondering if there is some sort of "system-level" annotator out there, that would allow me to hover the cursor over chinese text in any open window, such as MSN messenger or QQ, and have it translated.

When I was just using MSN I would translate things by quicky pasting them into ZDT's annotator. But when I tried doing this with chinese text copied from a QQ chat window, it just produced garbled nonsense. It doesn't take a genius to see it is some sort of font problem. But my chinese font knowledge continues to be somewhat "lacking".... it seems the more I learn about it the more confused I get.

Can anyone help me either

1)solve this compatibility problem between my QQ and ZDT annotator

and/or

2)find a system-level annotator I could install on my computer. Is there even such a thing? Is it even possible?

thanks in advance for the help,

kindest regards,

southernjohn.

[pandaxiongmao]

Kingsoft Powerword works on WindowsXP if you use that. It can translate pretty much any Chinese you can see on the screen. However, it doesn't work on Windows Vista. I am also not aware of any Mac version.