Re: [g-a-devel]AccessibleRelations

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Bill,

Bill Haneman wrote:

> David:
>
> There's been a substantial amount of testing of AccessibleRelation.
Okay great!  I am pleased to be wrong there.  I was looking at old 
archived messages...

>  I
> believe that it's fairly commonly implemented across the GNOME 2
> desktop.  I don't have the examples to hand but I do believe it's not
> uncommon.
>
> You can use at-poke to check for the presence of this API.  Note however
> that until recently there were difficulties with reciprocity (we could
> fairly easily automatically provide LABEL_FOR but LABELLED_BY wasn't
> alwayws reciprocally exposed).  However I believe this has recently been
> fixed/worked around in GAIL, so a recent build may expose LABELLED_BY
> more frequently.
Great, that gives me some direction.  LABELED_BY would keep the code 
cleaner.

cheers,

David

> regards,
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:02, David Bolter wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all. 
> >
> > I have my suspicions that there hasn't been a lot of testing of the 
> > AccessibleRelation stuff.  I have done some work today on gok that makes 
> > uses of this promising API.  I am so far not finding an application that 
> > is exposing such an interface in an expected ontext.  In particular this 
> > is what I am looking for:
> >
> > An accessible object that has an AccessibleEditableText interface *and* 
> > a LABELLED_BY relation.  Presumeably gtk dialogs would be prime 
> > candidates (since the text fields probably don't expose useful names by 
> > themselves).  Can someone please confirm such a beast?  I need to know 
> > if my code is broken.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > David
> >
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