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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Yes, not exposing unmapped widgets makes sense to me.  What does this mean 
from an implementation point of view-- does it mean that we change the way 
GailContainer works?  When we count children and do refAccessibleChild we 
just have to check if the children are mapped?  Or am I being daft?

Marc

At 12:03 PM 3/28/2002 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot