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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Very cool!  I'll check it out.

I like the move to this as opposed to ferret for its out-of-proc 
capabilities as well...

And be nice when you send blame mail-- I'm sure some of those bugs lower 
down are mine :)

Marc

At 11:03 PM 3/12/2002 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
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