Re: [g-a-devel]AccessibleRelations

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

> Thanks Padraig, Bill,
> 
> I had forgotten that GTK_MODULES variable!  I was testing with gedit 
> etc.  Okay I using at-poke I am seeing a LABEL_FOR relation.  I was 
> hoping to see a LABELED_BY for the text box but don't see it on the 
> at-poke dialog.  I shall have to invesitgate further (get a recent GAIL 
> build etc.)
> 

You ought to see it with gail from CVS HEAD. I have just checked that it works 
correctly.

> I'll let you know how it goes - I am distracted today but want to get 
> this working and in cvs as the modification to gok-spy will help with 
> other work.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> 
> >Try the gtk-demo appliction, and use the Dialog and message Boxes option.
> >
> >Note that as gtk-demo is a pure GTK programs ratehr than a GNOME program you 
> >must set the environment variable GTK_MODULES to "gail:atk-bridge" for it to 
be 
> >accessible.
> >
> >Padraig
> >
> >  
> >
> >>David:
> >>
> >>There's been a substantial amount of testing of AccessibleRelation.  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.
> >>
> >>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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