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

["Mukund" <mukund rajagopalan wipro com>]

Bill,

On Jayaraj's question 3:

>
>
> > 3. When we say GAIL library already has some code to
> implement AtkText
> > interfaces for a PangoLayout, do we mean to say that
> applications can use
> > the functions provided in GAIL to implement its own interfaces?
> > Doesn't that make the application dependent on GAIL?
>
> In this case the application would have a build-time dependency on
> gail-util.h.  It would have the same runtime dependency when
> used in an
> accessible context as any other application, but if gail is
> not present
> at runtime the application should still function (depending on how one
> structures the initialization code for the custom widgets, at least).
>

I guess what you mean here is not to make the custom widget accessible IF
Gail isn't loaded in the first place.

Jayaraj, have a look at the implementation of get_accessible for libgtkhtml
(html_view_get_accessible in gtkhtml2/libgtkhtml/view/htmlview.c). The
if(first_time) block checks whether Gail has been loaded by querying the
parent widget's factory. If loaded, the code proceeds to register the
factory of the custom widgets.

Bill/Padraig, Can we pull this functionality (check for GAIL) into a
common-reusable function/MACRO ?

Hope this helps,
Mukund.

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