Re: [g-a-devel] AccessibleTerminal Interface ?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Samuel Thibault, le Mon 06 Jun 2005 20:39:04 +0200, a dit :
>  
>
> > Bill Haneman, le Mon 06 Jun 2005 19:18:28 +0100, a dit :
> >    
> >
> > > As for line-by-line access, are you using AccessibleText_getTextAtOffset 
> > > () with the "LINE" parameter?
> > >      
> > I considered this possibility, but it can't be used, because it needs
> > knowing the offset of some char in the wanted line anyway.
> >    
That is the intended API.

> Of course, I reject any solution like "get line 1, then get line 2, then
> get line 3, ..." which is obviously sluggish since this requires back
> and forth communication for each line. 
AT-SPI can process thousands of requests per second.  So a round trip 
per line is not significant.  There is no "sluggishness" in that level 
of back-and-forth communication.

- Bill

> To get good latency, At-SPI
> reading must work as much as possible only with events.
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
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