Re: [g-a-devel]Do Treeview cell need text interface ?

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Mukund wrote:
> 
> BTW, my inference is based on gtk-demo's main window (left hand side).
> Am trying to locate an application where the table-cell does warrant for
> the text interface.
> 
> If the cell is editable, would it need the AccessibleText interface
> apart from EditableText ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mukund.
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org
> >  [mailto:gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org] On Behalf
> >  Of Mukund
> >  Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:09 AM
> >  To: 'Marc Mulcahy'; 'Padraig O'Briain';
> >  gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> >  Subject: [g-a-devel]Do Treeview cell need text interface ?
> >
> >
> >  With the recent change for the cells to report names, am wondering if
> >  they need to expose text interface ?
> >
> >  On querying the text interface, I find only the following
> >  functionality
> >  works (whatever that doesn't work makes sense considering the role of
> >  the cell):
> >
> >  AccessibleText_getAttributes (return value is NULL though)
> >  AccessibleText_getOffsetOffsetAtPoint
> >  AccessibleText_getText
> >  AccessibleText_getTextAtOffset
> >  AccessibleText_getTextBeforeOffset
> >  AccessibleText_getTextAfterOffset
> >  AccessibleText_getCharacterExtents
> >
> >  With the table-cell reporting name, all the above functionality looks
> >  redundant except the last one (Extents).
> >
> >  Therefore, IMHO, table-cells don't need to export text
> >  interface. Unless
> >  am missing some important perspective.

The main perspective is that if they "might" then that's
evidence enough that they should, even if you can't find a 
current example in which it is so.

And extents are very important, as are text-change notifications
which only should be emitted by implementors of AtkText.

The lack of implementation for attributes is a bug, not
a feature ;-)

-Bill


> >  Cheers,
> >  Mukund.