Re: [g-a-devel]Accessible AccessibleAction for setting application/window focus?

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 15:03, David Bolter wrote:
>
> > If I have a Accessible* to a child of a desktop (i.e. an application), 
> > is there some way I can (through the at-spi interfaces) cause that 
> > application to "raise", or "get focus", or "become active"?
>
> 	In a word 'no', at least not yet I think. It's likely we'll need to add
> a new interface for this; indeed the interfaces are under-developed in
> that area - mainly because a lot of effort has gone into 'atk' / 'gail'
> [ I imagine since that is what was needed before the freeze ] and less
> into the inter-app / window manager sort of interfaces.
>
> 	HTH,
>
> 		Michael.
Thanks Michael (and Padraig) for your speedy replies -- I love open 
source dev!

This is something that will be important to gok users, so I hope we can 
revisit it soon.  Do you agree this is something that does belong in the 
at-spi?  If not, then I should start a non at-spi solution.

cheers,

~~David