Re: [g-a-devel]AccessibleText_getSelection

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Well, there is no way in the current case to flag an invalid selection 
number.  A boolean seems a reasonable enough approach for this...

Marc

At 12:34 PM 3/27/2002 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> This suggestion doesn't actually seem right to me.
>
> see my comments below.
>
> >Yes, this seems right.  does the CORBA implementation in libspi/text.c
> >return a CORBA_boolean as well?
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >At 10:42 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> >
> >>void
> >>AccessibleText_getSelection (AccessibleText *obj,
> >>                              long int selectionNum,
> >>                              long int *startOffset,
> >>                              long int *endOffset);
> >>
> >>         I'm guessing this should return an SPIBoolean to be
> consistant
> >> with the
> >>rest of the API ?
>
> This is a "get" method and in general we are not returning booleans for
> them, we only use the boolean convention for "set" methods.
>
> "get" selection should always return something, even if it's an empty
> string without useful start and stop offsets.
>
> Why was it suggested that returning a boolean would be consistent?
>
> -Bill
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