Adding custom answer in Mac Spotlight

Question

I saw that we have access to calculator in Spotlight! And I wonder how an application can add custom answer like calculator do!

Thank you!

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '11 at 21:37

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Simple answer: no, they can't. The only thing you can write is a custom importer your application that enable spotlight to index you application data (as documents or as a database)

Introduction to Spotlight (developer.apple.com)

answered Sep 08 '11 at 21:37

Thomas Bartelmess

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So, the functionalities of Calculator are hard-coded into the source of Spotlight? – Mathieu Mahé Sep 09 '11 at 19:34
Yes, same for the dictionary and web searches. – Thomas Bartelmess Sep 12 '11 at 17:54

Adding custom answer in Mac Spotlight

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