Re: AtkText and AtkEditableText

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> > Some thoughts on AtkText and AtkEditableText:
> >
[regarding editable text function on "ordinary" text widgets]

> Hmmm...  We are planning to implement AtkText on static text, labels and the
> like, right?  Those generally can't be copied from in any case, nor selected.  I
> think that use cases should drive this decision.  There is a lot of text in a UI
> that cannot be copied or selected.  It seems like the right way to factor this
> (given the preponderace of it) is to have AtkText not contain those methods.
> Then, any place where text can be selected (but not necessarily edited - such as
> terminal windows), we implement AtkEditableText.

I think I come down on the side that Peter's on here, I believe we
should keep "text" interfaces in addition to "editable text" rather
than combining them for all text widgets.  The gvt-term stuff presents
a bit of a challenge to the "simple" view of text vs. editable text,
but I think we can resolve it.

Regards,

Bill
 
> You can factor it other ways; there isn't a manifestly "right" answer here I
> think.  But that's my personal feeling...
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibilty team
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Bill Haneman
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