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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Thanks very much for this info Bolian.

marc

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bolian Yin 
wrote:

> Hi Marc,
> 
> Assume you have had the gnome evironment with accessibility enabled 
> (RH8.0 has gnoem2 but no accessibility libs), then you need Mozilla 
> accessibility build for gtk2.
> You can either:
> 1. download it from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/accessibility/,  OR
> 2. build it youself. in this case make sure you have 
> "--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2" set  (and "--disable-debug" if you do 
> not want to build mozilla).
> 
> --Bolian
> 
> 
> Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> 
> >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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