Re: [orca-list] Possibly OT -- GUI development in Linux

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 15:14 +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
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> I've found two cross-platform accessible GUI frameworks that are
> available right now.  Swing is accessible because the java-access-bridge
> bridges accessibility info from Swing applications to
> assistive technologies like Orca.  SWT (the Eclipse UI toolkit)
> is cross-platform accessible because it uses native widgets
> (just like Wx does, but SWT actually works).
These now seem to be the ones I am concluding give best cross platform
accessibility.
> 
> There is one upcoming solution which is not readily available just yet
> but which might get interesting in a few wekks, thats Mono accessibility
> bindings (bridge) for WinForms applications to ATK.  So you will be
> able to write a System.Windows.Forms based app in C# and have
> it accessible on Linux and Windows.
This sounds interesting, would like to see it happen.
> 
> I'm afraid I haven't found a cross-platform accessible GUI toolkit
> for languages like C++ or Python, Java is the only option right now,
> and C# will be a future option.  You might be able to use Jython
> to program in Python but make use of existing Java classes.
There are a few reasons I wouldn't use jython, the main one being that
it is another implementation and does not have a C API, so I couldn't
use any python extension module. One thing I have seen which might be of
use here, which would allow python (I mean actually use python not
another implementation) is jpype (http://jpype.sourceforge.net) which is
an extension to allow use of java classes from python.

Michael Whapples
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