Re: [g-a-devel]Activate action for TreeView cell

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]Activate action for TreeView cell
> To: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
> Cc: accessibility mailing list <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>
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> Hi Padraig,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:39, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > Following prompting from Michael, I have come to the conclusion that a cell 
in a 
> > GtkTreeView should have an activate action. This action would correspond to 
> > double clicking on the cell. 
> 
> 	Great :-) thanks for that, I can now play with gtk-demo more
> effectively.
> 
> > The patch to implement the action is attached.
> 
> 	Looks fine.
> 
> > When using at-poke I have noticed that the table cells report no name. 
Should we 
> > report the text associated with the cell as the name in a similar way as we 
do 
> > for a GtkLabel?
> 
> 	Well - my feelings on that are very mixed indeed. I think it might be
> far more profitable to modify at-poke to set the tree's name to that of
> the Text interface' contents rather than the other way round.
> 
> 	The reason is that we have an AtkText:changed signal, so that we can
> sync the contents of an AtkTextified object with reality, but there is
> no 'name changed' signal. Thus I think for anything potentially more
> dynamic than a label we should leave the name NULL. What do you think ?
> 

I made the change after the reply from Marc who was in favour of it. There is 
not a 'name changed' signal but there is a property called "accessible-name" for 
which a notify signal should be emitted when the name changes. I have not yet 
added the code to do that to gailtextcell.c but I will today.

Padraig

> 	I'm happy for you (personally) to commit changes (such as the above) to
> at-poke, send a patch to the list as you do if you would,
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
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