[g-a-devel] Slider: Text has weird chars

["Quiring, Sam" <Sam Quiring windriver com>]

Greetings,

 

I'm using Accessibility to examine a horizonal slider (creation code shown below).  The Accessibility *object has roleName "slider".  The sub interfaces are: Action, Component, Text, and Value.  On the GUI I moved the slider to have value 57.4.  When I retrieve the text, it comes back with 5 characters.  The last 4 characters are "57.4" as expected.  The first character is a UTF8 three byte sequence whose value is 200e.  What does this mean and why is it there?  The value 200e looks like a non-printing character to me.  What is its purpose?

 

Here is the code that created the slider:

 

static void scale_set_default_values(GtkScale *scale)
{
    gtk_range_set_update_policy(GTK_RANGE(scale), GTK_UPDATE_CONTINUOUS);
    gtk_scale_set_digits(scale, 1);
    gtk_scale_set_value_pos(scale, GTK_POS_TOP);
    gtk_scale_set_draw_value(scale, TRUE);
}
...

    GtkObject *adjustment = gtk_adjustment_new(0.0, 0.0, 101.0, 0.1, 1.0, 1.0);
    GtkWidget *gtkHScale = gtk_hscale_new(GTK_ADJUSTMENT(adjustment));
    scale_set_default_values(GTK_SCALE(gtkHScale));

-Sam