Re: [g-a-devel]tool-tips parents

["padraig o'briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

It is not currently possible to determine from a tooltip what the corresponding widget is. See bug 114851. Even if it were, I do not think that we would want to represent the tooltip as a child of the widget. See related discussion in bug 76266.

Padraig

gnome-accessibility-devel bernard-hugueney org wrote:
> 
> Bonjour,
> As some of you may already know, I'm logging events and all their
> (parents) ancestors.
> I get the following log for a tool-tip:
> "
>   <event time="2003-10-09 17:02:35.987826"
> type="object:state-changed:showing" detail1= "1" detail2= "0" >
>     <gui role= "tool-tip" name= "Paragraphe centré" id="0x809f8d8" >
>       <states>ENABLED   SENSITIVE       SHOWING VISIBLE </states>
>      <component x="544" y="137" width="114" height="24" />
>     </gui>
>   </event>
> "
> What bothers me is that for other gui elements, I can get up to the
> main application using the chain of parents.
> eg :"
>   <event time="2003-10-09 17:03:00.284501"
> type="object:state-changed:selected" detail1= "1" detail2= "0" >
>     <GUI role= "application" name= "AbiWord" id="0x80ba518" >
>       <STATES></STATES>
>       <APP id="6" />
>       <GUI role= "frame" name= "Document1 * - AbiWord" id="0x80b1f10"
> >
>         <STATES>ENABLED RESIZABLE       SENSITIVE       SHOWING VISIBLE </STATES>
>         <COMPONENT x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="742" />
>         <GUI role= "filler" id="0x809f9d8" >
>           <STATES>ENABLED       SENSITIVE       SHOWING VERTICAL        VISIBLE </STATES>
>           <COMPONENT x="6" y="25" width="1012" height="711" />
>           <GUI role= "menu-bar" id="0x80b15d0" >
>             <STATES>ENABLED     SENSITIVE       SHOWING VISIBLE </STATES>
>             <COMPONENT x="6" y="25" width="1012" height="26" />
>             <SELECTION/>
>             <GUI role= "menu" name= "Format" id="0x809f8d8" >
>               <STATES>ENABLED   SELECTABLE      SELECTED        SENSITIVE       SHOWING VISIBLE
> </STATES>
>               <ACTIONS>
>                 <ACTION nb="0" name="click" description=""
> key_binding="&lt;Alt&gt;t;&lt;Alt&gt;t;" />
>               </ACTIONS>
>               <COMPONENT x="257" y="28" width="51" height="20" />
>               <SELECTION/>
>               <TEXT nb_characters="6" carret_offset="0" >
>                 Format
>               </TEXT>
>             </GUI>
>           </GUI>
>         </GUI>
>       </GUI>
>     </GUI>
>   </event>
> "
> I understand (from trying to snapshot a tooltip) that they are not
> part of the X11 frame. Nevertheless, I think it would be useful to
> have the underling widget as parent for the tooltips.
> Any idea ?
> 
> Bernard
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