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

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

Bill Haneman, le Mon 06 Jun 2005 21:14:41 +0100, a dit :
> 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.

!

This is slow. And will only get slowlier over network. This is not a
solution.

Regards,
Samuel