AppleScript Question

[Garrett Hylltun]

Rev 2.6.1 on OS X

Greetings,

I'm trying to get the Dictionary.app to cooperate with my project,  
but can't figure out how to do what I need.

What I want to do is when you highlight a word in a a field, right  
click and select a menu entry, to send that word to the  
Dictionary.app so that it will look up the word.

No problem on the highlight, right click and menu stuff, but getting  
the Dictionary.app to open and look up the word is the problem.

I checked Apple's site to see if Dictionary.app was scriptable, but  
it's not.  But!  It says that if you type into Safari Dict:///word   
(word being the word you want to lookup) that Safari will open the  
Dictionary.app program and have the Dictionary.app lookup the word.

So I tried using revGoURL, which opened Safari, and Dict:///word was  
sent to Safari, but Safari added http:// in front of Dict:///word,  
which of course did nothing.

I thought that I'd try to see if there was an AppleScript solution to  
this using the Dict:///word idea, but my knowledge of AppleScript is  
nill and my attempts so far have done nothing at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or maybe even some code that  
might accomplish what I need for this?  Something maybe that opens  
Safari hidden, send the data to it without it getting http:// stuffed  
in front of it?


Thanks,
-Garrett