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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

This dependency on gail seems ok to me.  And if an app or lib doesn't want 
to incur the dependency, they can just not use the macro...

Marc

At 09:42 AM 2/5/2002 +0000, Padraig O'Briain wrote:


> >
> > 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 ?
> >
>
> This is a good idea. The problem is where to put the function/MACRO. If it 
> is in
> gail/util it means that any project which wishes to use it then has a 
> dependency
> on gail.
>
> Putting it in gtk+/gtkaccessible.h would solve that problem but we would 
> not get
> permission to do it this close to release.
>
> Padraig
>
>
>
> > Hope this helps,
> > Mukund.
> >
>
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