Re: [g-a-devel] GAIL questions

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hey Mike,

Please drop a line here or on the more user-oriented accessibility lists 
when you have things further along such that folks might try it out and 
play with it.  I know a lot of folks have been keen to use AbiWord.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> > Gail will be loaded if the whole system's accessibility is enabled. And
> > I am not sure if your application wants to depend on gail. Evolution met
> > the same problem. You can take a look at ea-combo-button.c in Evolution.
> > e-combo-button is based on GtkButton, ea-combo-button is based on
> > gailbutton and Evolution is not depend on gail. Just inherit it
> > run-time.
> >     
>
> Thanks, Li.  That helped.  I didn't realize that I could look up the 
> AtkObject factory for a type and then use the factory to retrieve the 
> accessible type.  That gets around the whole issue of not being able to 
> access gail's symbols.  I now have the GailWidget functionality back (the 
> widget still doesn't provide any meaningful accessibility because I 
> haven't written an AtkTextIface implementation yet.)
>
> I'll write again if I run into anything else that I can't figure out.
>
> -Mike
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