Re: [g-a-devel]RE: (no subject)

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 22:16, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 08:49, bharat tewari wrote:
> > hmm.. wasn't it decided that rather than trying to 
> re-invent the wheel of accessibility for gtkhtml, it would be better 
> of providing editing support to gtkhtml2 and evolution would use 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> gtkhtml2 in the future.
> > was this idea dropped completely?
> 
> Evolution needs an editor as well, which gtkhtml2 lacks.

Noted by Bharat.  Accessibility will need CSS, which gtkhtml lacks.
Either way work is needed.  Personally I'd rather deal with the gtkhtml2
codebase, but the Evo guys may not agree ;-)

- Bill
 
> Luis
> 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gilbert Fang [mailto:gilbert fang sun com]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:31 PM
> > > To: Bill Haneman
> > > Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org;
> > > gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> > > Subject: (no subject)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi, Bill
> > > 
> > > I plan to make the atk implementation of  the Gal and gtkhtml module.
> > >  
> > > I read the "GNOME Accessibilityf or Developers(CVS draft)". ( I could
> > > not find it at gnome website now, is it deleted?) . It is said that
> > > "programs that make sue of GAIL are written as GTK modules". 
> > > And I found
> > > that the exsting a11y codes of Gal and gtkhtml are built as  modules. 
> > >  
> > > But I found two kind of modules. One is GTK module with its 
> > > init entry.
> > > And other is as I name it Accessibilty module which has an different
> > > entry .
> > >   
> > > The following is from libgnome/gnome-program.c
> > > ======================================
> > >  static gboolean
> > > accessibility_invoke_module (GnomeProgram *program,
> > > 			     const char   *libname,
> > > 			     gboolean      init)
> > > {
> > > 	GModule    *handle;
> > > 	void      (*invoke_fn) (void);
> > > 	const char *method;
> > > 	gboolean    retval = FALSE;
> > > 	char       *module_name;
> > > 
> > > 	if (init)
> > > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_init";
> > > 	else
> > > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_shutdown";
> > > 
> > > 	module_name = find_accessibility_module (program, libname);
> > > 
> > > 	if (!module_name) {
> > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to find 
> > > module '%s' which "
> > > 			   "is needed to make this application 
> > > accessible",
> > > 			   libname);
> > > 
> > > 	} else if (!(handle = g_module_open (module_name, 
> > > G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY)))
> > > {
> > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to load 
> > > module '%s': '%s'",
> > > 			   libname, g_module_error ());
> > > 
> > > 	} else if (!g_module_symbol (handle, method, (gpointer 
> > > *)&invoke_fn)) {
> > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: error library '%s' 
> > > does not include "
> > > 			   "method '%s' required for 
> > > accessibility support",
> > > 			   libname, method);
> > > 		g_module_close (handle);
> > > 
> > > 	} else {
> > > 		retval = TRUE;
> > > 		invoke_fn ();
> > > 	}
> > > 
> > > 	g_free (module_name);
> > > 
> > > 	return retval;
> > > }
> > > =================
> > > It seems the accessibility module should have the
> > > "gnome_accessibility_module_init" function as the entry function.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Then what is the better one? Which way should I do for the future?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > > Gilbert 
> > > 
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