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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

I like the idea of making the AtkObject for the tooltip a child of the 
object which threw it up.  padraig, is this feasible?

Marc

At 03:54 PM 3/27/2002 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 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 ].
>
>         Regards,
>
>                 Michael.
>
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