Re: [g-a-devel] Key snooping, key events, etc.

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:43:01PM GMT, Piñeiro wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 07:24 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > I've been playing with QT 5 lately, testing out accessibility, and so far thigs look pretty good. One 
> > thing I've noticed is that I cannot use Orca flat review in Qt apps, which was also the case with Qt 4. 
> > So I've set about trying to work out why this is. I initially thought it was due to Orca not having a 
> > script to work with Qt apps, i.e a toolscript similar to the cally and gail scripts, but I figured there 
> > was more to it than that. So far, I've come to the conclusion that the app toolkit in use, i.e GTK has to 
> > implement some form of key snooping to catch the appropriate keystrokes and send them to atk/at-spi.
>
> Well, I don't know if there is any relation between key events and the
> flat review (Joanmarie is the one that could answer that).
>
> But I can explain how the key events registering is implemented.

Thanks for the explanation, this makes sense to me now.

Luke