Re: [g-a-devel] How to know where the text caret is

["Kristian Lyngstøl" <kristian bohemians org>]

On 6/6/07, Peter Korn <Peter Korn sun com> wrote:
> Hi Kristian,
>
> You can do this directly by listening for caret events (I'll leave it to
> others to point you to specific lines of code in Gnopernicus, Orca, or
> LSR that do this).  But may I suggest a different approach?
>
> Screen readers like Orca do a lot more than just track the caret.  They
> track focus, they track selected items in menus and cells in tables.
> With features like flat review, they will even walk through the screen
> (without generating any events) to read what is there a letter/word/line
> at a time.
>
> May I suggest you either: (a) implement the gnome-mag API such that a
> screen reader can drive the magnifier directly; or (b) explore a new,
> non-CORBA API for communication between the Zoom plugin and assistive
> technologies in order to have an AT drive the Zoom plugin?

I'm not familiar enough with gnome-mag API, but I don't really want to
implement any CORBA code in Compiz. But I do want to open this plugin
up so it can be driven by separate applications.

However, in the short term it makes sense to create a small piece of
code to fetch exactly what I need. I haven't decided whether I'll put
this code into the actual plug-in (separate thread, for instance),
which would be convenient for many, or let it live outside the
plug-in. Either way, the logical next step is a more complete API,
similar to the Gnome-mag API. Hopefully, that'll become the long-term
goal.

Another thing, I heard a rather strange rumor about AT-SPI C bindings
being depreciated? I assume that's just a misunderstanding of some
sort?

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Regards,
Kristian