Re: [g-a-devel] Relationships code example in AtkGuide

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for pointing this out, we probably should update the wiki page in 
the relationship section and add links to 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/ pages.

Li
On 06/ 3/10 05:08 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I spent some time over the last week trying to repair a GTK application
> that manually creates it's UI (i.e. calls to gtk libraries to place
> widgets, not a glade-generated UI), including among other things fixing
> it's accessibility metadata.  (I'm sure some users will be crushed when
> it no longer brings up a dialog with the description set to the ever
> useful "AT-enabled dialog", since the previous developer had some
> peculiar ideas about Accessibility Technology.)
>
> When I was searching for documentation on setting the atk properties
> correctly, whatever combination of terms I entered into google (I don't
> rememeber off hand) led me to:
> 	http://live.gnome.org/GAP/AtkGuide/GtkAtk
>
> Since the dialog didn't have relationships set between the labels and
> the input fields, I started following the example code shown under
> 	3. Label widgets by establishing a relationship
>
> and quickly realized a helper function would be easier to manage,
> and guessed someone else would have made one.   Digging some more I
> found the libatk docs and saw that it already provides the function
> atk_object_add_relationship which seems much simpler and much less
> scary to new developers - is there any reason that's not listed instead
> of the 5 line manual version on that wiki page?   Or is that wiki page
> not the best reference any more?   If not, could it be updated to point
> to the right place?   Or if it is a living document, a whole bunch of
> links in it that go to dead pages would be better served by linking
> to the http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/ pages for the API instead.
>
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