Re: [g-a-devel]Gnome 2.0 : accessibility for the gnome-cd application

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

Bill,

I think that the code you are referring to is in gail/util/gailmisc.[ch]. If so, 
we do export the headers.

Padraig

> 
> However the 'gail' library already has code that can implement most of
> AtkText on behalf of a pango layout, so it may not be too much
> additional work to complete the job of implementing AtkText.  For
> comparison, keep in mind that GtkLabels implement AtkText.
> 
> I don't think that we currently export the headers for re-using the
> pango-based AtkText implementations in gail, but perhaps we should
> (rather than recommending cut-and-paste from gail).  What do you think
> Padraig?  We'd have to request that this API be added, I believe. 
> However if the alternative is cut-and-paste then the GNOME release team
> is likely to allow it, I think.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> Mukund wrote:
> > 
> > Jayaraj,
> > 
> > Having AtkText interface means you got to provide information on
> > cursor-location, selection, getting text after position, etc. You need to
> > check if these functions could be implemented for the text in the display
> > area. In other words, could you get information from the application to
> > support these interfaces?
> > 
> > I see that you would NULLIFY most of the functions in AtkText which means
> > this probably is not the right interface. In other words, an AT will make a
> > query on all these functions only to find that they aren't implemented,
> > which is not nice to have it done that way.
> > 
> > Bill/Padriag?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mukund.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org
> > [mailto:gnome-accessibility-devel-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of JAYARAJ P
> > R
> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:54 PM
> > To: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org;
> > gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > Subject: [g-a-devel]Gnome 2.0 : accessibility for the gnome-cd
> > application
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The gnome-cd application has a custom widget called CDDisplay which forms
> > the display area where the information about the time elapsed, album name,
> > artist name etc appears. The parent of this CDDisplay custom widget is a
> > GtkDrawingArea. It contains 4 lines of PangoLayout each of which display
> > information about the time elapsed for the current track, album name and
> > artist name.
> > 
> > As part of accessibility, i feel that this custom widget requires AtkText
> > interface to be implemented. The atk_text_get_text() interface of AtkText
> > would return the time elapsed, album name and artist name when the focus is
> > on the CDDisplay custom widget. Most of the other interfaces in AtkText
> > doesn't seem
> > to make enough sense in this case and would be no-op functions.
> > 
> > Anyone got different ideas?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jayaraj
> > 
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