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

["Draghi Puterity" <mp baum de>]

Hi Michael,

this is a very nice tool which will certainly help us a lot with
Gnopernicus, especially when we will start the screen review mode.

Thanks a lot,
Draghi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Meeks" <michael ximian com>
To: "Bill Haneman" <bill haneman sun com>; "muktha"
<muktha narayan wipro com>
Cc: "accessibility mailing list" <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>;
"Dave Camp" <dave helixcode com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:03 AM
Subject: [g-a-devel]Announce: at-poke


> 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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