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

[Peter Korn <korn sun com>]

Hi Michael,

> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 17:06, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> > 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?
> 
>         Could we not make the tooltip window a child of the accessible that
> threw it up ? though that's most likely ugliness and pain, hmm.
> 
>         Sigh; possibly the problem with tooltips is not emitting
> children-changed on the application when a tooltip window disappears -
> or (quite possibly) the resources associated with the tooltip are not
> destroyed, just hidden thus the Atk objects hang around [ and I still
> very strongly feel that proxies for un-mapped GtkWidgets should not
> appear in the tree at all ].

Is this not a perfect application of Accessible Relations?  The tooltop window
is a top level window, but it has a special relationship with the widget it is
next to (and which popped it up).


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team