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

[Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev moonset net>]

Hi Kristian,

Do you have a project page where we can look at your project goals and 
progress?

- Aaron

Kristian Lyngstøl wrote:
> I'm working on improving the Zoom plugin in Comiz; giving it a few
> accessibility improvements. I want to make it able to track the
> text-caret, similar to what orca and gnome-mag does.
>
> I wish to use AT-SPI for this, and I've been experimenting with it to
> figure out how. I was hoping someone could point me in the right
> direction so I could fetch the caret position (when changed) and
> figure out where it moved in screen coordinates.
>
> So far, I've modified an existing (small) at-spi application and I've
> been able to fetch object:text-caret-moved events, which seems to give
> me the character/caret offset. If anyone could give me pointer on how
> to convert this to screen coordinates (my efforts didn't prevail), it
> would be much appreciated.
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