Re: [g-a-devel]EditableText exported when keyboard and mouse edit doesn't work

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> 
> Hi Padraig,
> 
> > > > The EditableText interface is exported for the Info and Source tab
> > > > (right hand side of gtk-demo) and I've been able to exercise all the
> > > > methods in the AccessibleEditableText interface successfully.
> > > >
> > > > What's intriguing is that this area is not editable via keyboard (or
> > > > mouse) whereas the methods allow me to cut, copy, paste, insert text
> > > > into the area!
> >
> > What we have is a GtkTextView for which gtk_tree_view_set_editable(...,
> > FALSE) has been called.
> >
> > I will change the implementation of AtkEditableText in gailtextview.c to
> > check that the underlying widget is editable before allowing these
> > functions to run.
> >
> > I will also check the other implementations of AtkEditableText that we
> > have.
> 
> Do we still want some of the AtkEditableText methods to work - e.g. Copy?

I think so; at least if "Select" works.  

Some time ago I suggested that Copy be moved to
Text from EditableText, but the reply seemed to be that we had
sufficient info for a copy operation already in the form
of the 'getText' API.  Semantically I think copy only should
work if you can "select".

-Bill

> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team