Re: [g-a-devel]AT-SPI Addition to Signal Handler in at-bridge

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

It seems that the at-spi client may need to get the text associated with a text 
insertion or text deletion event. Could this text be part of the event 
notification to the at-spi client?

I think that the ATK signal could be changed to include the text being added or 
deleted or the at-bridge could get the text when it received a text-changed 
signal.

I have had a look at the atk-bridge code but it is not clear to me whether this 
can be made to work.

Padraig

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> This doesn't solve my problem, since the event notifications in at-spi are 
> "one-way" notifications.  So by the time the at-spi client gets the event 
> notification, there's no guaranty that the text hasn't been deleted.  In 
> fact, in my simple tests, it was almost always the case that the text had 
> been deleted by the time the at-spi client received the event notification.
> 
> Marc
> 
> At 01:57 PM 1/2/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >I do not remember the discussion. I have checked the code and found that on
> >September 13th I changed the behavior of the text-changed::delete signal 
> >so that
> >the signal is emitted before the text is actually deleted.
> >
> >I am not sure if this solves Marc's problem but is should be possible to 
> >get the
> >text which is about to be deleted in a signal handler. I am about to update
> >ferret to do this.
> >
> >Padraig
> >
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> > > To: Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>
> > > CC: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, padraig obriain sun com
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> > > Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > (regarding text_changed::delete)
> > >
> > > > This raised an interesting an not so happy issue: how can an at tell 
what
> > > > text was deleted.  By the time the AT receives the text-changed::delete
> > > > notification, the text is already gone.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > padraig and I talked about this some weeks/months ago, and I thought
> > > we'd found a workaround... but I can't recall it.  Padraig, do you
> > > remember this discussion?
> > >
> > > -Bill
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