Re: [g-a-devel]Tooltips and accessibility

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 17:06, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> > > I think the description might not be enough in the case of magnification or
> > > some other application which wants to draw attention to the tooltip, since
> > > the description wouldn't give the tooltip's location.  i understand
> > > Michael's discontentmet with showing a new GailToplvel when a tooltip is
> > > displayed.  Do we have any other options between not giving any
> > > notification, and notifying the tooltip creation as a new GailToplevel?
> >
> >         Could we not make the tooltip window a child of the accessible that
> > threw it up ? though that's most likely ugliness and pain, hmm.
> >
> >         Sigh; possibly the problem with tooltips is not emitting
> > children-changed on the application when a tooltip window disappears -
> > or (quite possibly) the resources associated with the tooltip are not
> > destroyed, just hidden thus the Atk objects hang around [ and I still
> > very strongly feel that proxies for un-mapped GtkWidgets should not
> > appear in the tree at all ].
> 
> Is this not a perfect application of Accessible Relations?  The tooltop window
> is a top level window, but it has a special relationship with the widget it is
> next to (and which popped it up).

I am not so sure - though surely LABEL_FOR and LABELLED_BY would apply
here.  
Exposing these as toplevels will have some nasty side-effects, and at
the moment
changing relations is not a very lightweight operation (we didn't plan
for it to
by a highly dynamic operation).  I understand Michael's concern here.

-Bill

> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
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