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

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Marc,

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:13, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> I like the idea of making the AtkObject for the tooltip a child of the 
> object which threw it up.  padraig, is this feasible?

	Sounds like it might be horribly difficult to do to me; the way
tooltips are handled is not going to be extremely easy to do anything
with IMHO - since we keep a single persistent GtkWindow around to map /
unmap where we want it as necessary - which [ due to the fact that
AtkObjects are always exposed regardless of whether windows are mapped ]
means that the AtkObject will stay in the hierarchy.

	My personal feeling is [ cf. the huge hidden menu hierarchy in nautilus
being exposed ] that we should not expose unmapped GtkWidget's
accessibles at all; since by definition you can't see them - and
everyone assumes that therefore you can't use them either :-)

	Regards,

		Michael.

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