Re: [g-a-devel]Re: inconsistent in gnopernicus event process for HTML input widgets

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Simford,

If one wanted to build from Mozilla trunk, are there environment 
variables to set to get GTK2 and accessibility support built in?

Thanks,

Marc

On Tue, 28 
Jan 2003, Simford Dong wrote:

> Hi Remus,
> 
> Yes, there is much difference between gtk and mozilla toolkits.
> Firstly, Mozilla does not expose the relation (between label and its widget) to at-spi,
> but just return the label name when the widget is requested for getText().
> Secondly, the list-item and its parent (combo-box) are different accessible objects in Mozilla.
> When getText() is requested, list-item just returns the content of current selected item,
> not the name of its parent (combo-box), in other words, the name of corresponding label.
> So maybe Gnopernicus should adjust its event process to make all HTML input widgets work smoothly.
> 
> There is little change in Mozilla Accessibility since last November.
> You can use your old version for testing or just build it yourself from trunk tree of mozilla.org.
> 
> Best regards,
> Simford
> 
> remus draica wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch, but not this is the idea in which gnopernicus must work.
> > Possible causes of this behaviour could be:
> >  - diferences between gtk and mozilla toolkits;
> >  - missing some relations between objects or name of the object is not 
> > reported correctly.
> > 
> > I tried to see what the problem can be for this page.
> > My mozilla version is from 07 november 2002 from mozilla site.
> > For the page in atachament, I cannot see any relation between that combo and 
> > label (text before label).
> > 
> > Please send me an adress from where I can donload the most recent mozilla 
> > version for more investigation.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Remus
> 
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