Re: [g-a-devel]some comments about at-poke

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 09:02, Bolian Yin wrote:

Hi Bolian!

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use "at-poke" to test  netscape accessibility.  It looks 
>  nice, but  there are some unconvenient:
> 1.  at-poke refresh the tree too frequently.  Even the mouse move can 
> triger that.

This one is my fault, I added property listeners to at-poke and at the
moment the refresh is not very intelligent about when and what it
refreshes.

> 2.  using a hight rectangle to mark the visible widget will be a good 
> enhancement:   for example, when I click on a node of the tree-view in 
> at-poke, a highlight rectangle appears on the related visbile widget of 
> sever application.

This is a nice idea but could be tricky to implement; the at-spi API
doesn't expose a direct way to do it.  Probably it could be done with a
partially-transparent, shaped X window.

regards,

Bill

> 3.  It will be good, when focus change in the sever appliation,  at-poke 
> has some way to mark that.
> 4.  at-poke can not reflect the change in sever application (such as 
> windows popup, go away) without a direct refresh.
> 
> I know that, at-poke is still under development now.  So maybe you have 
> plan these and many other features.  I just want to
> show you my conerns.   Thanks for providing such a nice tesing tool anyway.
> 
> Bolian Yin
> 
> 
> 
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