Re: [g-a-devel]test-simple patch ...

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Marc,

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 17:09, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> Well, what we need is a way to get all the text from the AtkText, 
> preferrably without calling atk_text_get_character_count first.  so we came 
> up with -1 as the magic offset to mean the length of the text.  Michael, 
> does -1 make sense, or do you think maxint is better?  I don't think it 
> matters a whole lot what we choose as long as we're consistent throughout 
> at-spi and gail.

	-1 is great, ideal I have no problem with it - except that the code no
longer works. Change WHOLE_STRING to -1 in test-simple.c re-run the
regression test and bang - it dies.

	I'm amazed that it worked for you guys with '-1' and/or that it changed
in the recent past.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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