Re: [g-a-devel]Tooltips and accessibility

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

I do not see any other option if we are to support magnification.

I would need to undo the change I made to remove tooltip window from the 
toplevel list.

Michael had another complaint that the window was listed event when the tooltip 
was not displayed. I need to figure out why that is happening as it should not.

Padraig
 
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> I think the description might not be enough in the case of magnification or 
> some other application which wants to draw attention to the tooltip, since 
> the description wouldn't give the tooltip's location.  i understand 
> Michael's discontentmet with showing a new GailToplvel when a tooltip is 
> displayed.  Do we have any other options between not giving any 
> notification, and notifying the tooltip creation as a new GailToplevel?
> 
> Marc
> 
> At 08:55 AM 3/26/2002 +0000, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> >Michael logged bug 76266 which complained that the window used to display
> >tooltips appears in the list of windows presented by at-poke.
> >
> >I have made a chnaged to GAIL to prevent this happening but I am not sure 
> >that
> >this is the correct approach.
> >
> >Should GAIL be reporting when a tooltip is displayed on the screen or is
> >atk_object_get_description() the only way we allow access to a tooltip? I 
> >know
> >that there may be serious difficulties reporting when a tooltip is 
> >displayed as
> >it does not receive focus.
> >
> >Padraig
> >
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