Re: [g-a-devel]Accessibility for profterm

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Pasupathi Duraisamy wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
> 
> As a part of providing accessibility to the profterm application I tried
> to add atk relation between the components in "Edit profile" dialog box.
> 
> "Edit profile" dialog box was created using "profterm.glade2"  xml file.
> This profterm.glade2 was generated from older version of glade through
> libglade-convert during build process. I found that accessibility
> feature is not supported for the older version of glade.
> 
> Hence in the source file "profile-editor.c"  I tried to set the
> realtions through a small piece of code. Here I used the function call
> as shown below for setting relations.
> 
>  widget_label_relation_set (glade_xml_get_widget("label29"),
> glade_xml_get_widget ("profile entry") );
> 
> My fear is that i am hard coding the names like 'label29' and 'profile
> entry'. Suppose in future someone else changes the name of "label29" to
> something else while generating a new xml file then the particular piece
> of  code has no use.
> 
> My question  is
> a) Is this way of hard coding  correct?
> b) Is there any idea of using glade2 directly instead of converting it
> from older version of glade ?
> 
> Please let me know how to go about adding accessibility in this case.

Hi Pasupathi:

As Padraig has already posted in reply to some similar questions,
accessible relations can be explicitly placed in the glade2 XML 
file using <atkrelation>

See the example "simple.glade" in libglade/examples.

-Bill

> Thanks and Regards,
> Pasupathi.
> 
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