Re: Can GOK work with autocompletion?

[david bolter utoronto ca]

Hi guys. Technically I'm on holiday today.  I think we could choose an existing
event (or propose a new one) for notification regarding this... and GOK could
create a key representing the current app-autocompletion.

Nice idea guys!

cheers,
D
Quoting Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>:

> Hi Evan,
> 
> This is an interesting idea - having GOK work with auto-completion!  GOK 
> has its own work completion algorithm, but that by its nature cannot 
> have application-specific knowledge, and so generally won't do as good a 
> job.
> 
> The question is, how should GOK show such application-specific word 
> completion, and how do we communicate that between the application and 
> GOK via AT-SPI.  Evan, David - any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm now working on a mozilla a11y bug, about autocompletion. The URL of
> > the bug is
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338242
> >
> > I'm not sure whether GOK can work with autocompletion.
> > When I input something used before into a textbox, the autocompletion
> > will pop up, could GOK update to show the autocompletion items?
> > I also tried that in Evolution. When writing a email, inputing a mail
> > address which have been in the contact list, the autocompletion pop up,
> > GOK also can't work with it.
> >
> > Is that a GOK bug?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Evan
> >
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