Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:09 -0400, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> I do want to have some sort of filtering option where you can type into a 
> searchbox and when you tab back to the list, you'll see it filtered 
> according to what you've typed.  I'll get to this eventually.
This feature shouldn't be too difficult, or at least the idea isn't and
it wouldn't be in certain programming languages.

I would say you would need to have a full list internal to the plugin
(not just the visual list), and on change of the search box the list
view is refreshed with those items from the internal list which start
with the content of the search box. In python this would be just a
matter of populating the list from inside an if statement such as
for item in fullLinkList:
  if item.name.startswith(searchTerm):
    linksView.add(item)

For more efficiency it might be worth considering a search button so
that code is only searched for when the user wants it, rather than every
time they press a key. I suppose it could also be done when the search
box looses focus, but this probably would look odd visually.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
> As per Will's suggestion of starting with Charles' Firevox navigation code, 
> I  had thought of that too. The issue for me is reading other people's code. 
> When your using speech and browsing is done line-by-line, digesting and 
> propperly understanding someone else's code (or even mine from days gone by) 
> can be very tedious. So, I'll have to have a look and see how much of it 
> makes sense to reuse.  I've talked to him in the past, so I think he will be 
> ok with using some or all of the navigation code, so will give him a shout 
> when I figure out how I'm going to proceede.
>
> NOte that I have played with headings a bit, and now have an extension akin 
> to linkslist which displays a list of headings which you can browse and then 
> you press ok, your focus moves to the one you've selected.  Jaws does this 
> very well.  I use the focusedElement of the commandDispatcher to set focus. 
> Once I get next/previous heading navigation working, I'll release that one 
> for people to play with.
>
> Thanx.
> -- Rich
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
> To: "Halim Sahin" <halim sahin t-online de>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension
>
>
> > I would like to also say that this seems a good start.
> >
> > I do have a couple of comments which you may wish to consider in the
> > future.
> >
> > Could it be possible to have it so you could type in the list and it
> > starts searching for that string. If in the list is not easy for a
> > firefox extension (I know that some GTK apps do have this ability), then
> > could there be a search box and the contents of the search box is used
> > to filter the list of links (ie. splitting how one control works in some
> > GTK apps into two controls).
> >
> > The other comment, probably isn't really to do with your plugin, but I
> > noticed this when using the plugin. If you go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
> > and select the listen again link, then use the list of links plugin on
> > that listen again page, orca became very unresponsive, and it took an
> > amazingly long time for it to respond when the dialog got focus (not
> > just when it appeared, but if I were to alt+tab away and back, this is
> > why I think it might be more orca than the plugin as the plugin should
> > not be doing anything when I do the alt+tabs). I know that page has a
> > large number of links. Might this be something which should be filed
> > against orca in bugzilla?
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:04 +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > On Mi, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:22:57 -0400, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> > > > Here is the updated version, with shortcut key alt+shift+l to invoke.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/linkslist-1.1.xpi
> > >
> > > Thanks really good work.
> > >
> > > I.ve one small problem with the alt+shift+l shortcut.
> > > My german localized firefox uses this one allready. Is there a chance to 
> > > redefine
> > > it via add-on-settings?????
> > > Thanks
> > > Halim
> >
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