Re: [g-a-devel] About the signal "text-update"

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 2013-08-13 13:31, Piñeiro wrote:

> But for example, AFAIK, one of the things that Orca does is expose 
> the
> text removed when the user press backspace. I see that easily 
> supported
> with 'text-remove'. How that could be supported with 'text-updated'?
> Joanmarie, any idea?

I assume that the "updated" signal would still be emitted and that from
the mysterious/undocumented event details I would be able to discern 
what
was removed and that what was removed was replaced by nothing. ;)

But of course we need documentation.

> Well, I thought that was the opposite. First atk+at-spi give the
> support, implementors use them, and at last AT can start to use it ;) 
> In
> any case, I prefer to talk first about the meaning and use case of 
> that
> signal before going to how the AT could use it.

As the presumed primary consumer of the mystery args, explicit +1. :)

Confusedly yours,
--joanie