[g-a-devel]Announce: at-poke

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hello,

	Well - since at-poke now does something almost halfway useful, I
thought I'd just have a little rave about it, and what I want to do with
it.

	Firstly, it's CVS module 'at-poke', it requires glade and uses at-spi's
cspi interface to do all it's good stuff.

	It allows you to browse the applications registered with the registry,
and poke around at their innards to some (increasing) degree. Better, it
has a pretty GtkTreeView that shows you the accessible hierarchy, and
that almost all widgets don't have names - is that fair enough Bill ?

	Here is a screenshot of it in action:

		http://primates.ximian.com/~michael/at-poke.png

	So; I'm hoping that I can get this to the stage where it can replace
ferret - since it has a chance of working for every app, not just for
pure in-proc ones.

	It's also a nice CORBA demo since nothing is cached, so every string
and bit of state that is rendered ( and all the tree traversal ) 
involves a CORBA roundtrip - so it's pleasing that it works well.

	Lastly, it seems to be throwing up a number of interesting bugs /
warnings / mis-features around the place, so if you're worried about
your code, play with it - before I find who to blame for whatever
breakage lower down ;-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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