Re: Getting the currently active widget?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 08/31/2015 02:40 AM, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote:
> On 29/08/15 23:31, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working on the AT-SPI2 driver of brltty, and there is something we
> > are doing very oddly: finding out which widget is currently active.  At
> > the moment what we do is starting from the AT-SPI root, and recursively
> > look at children until we find one which is focused and has an active
> > parent. 
>
> As far as I know something like that is what Orca does (Joanmarie can
> confirm).

I think the bug you subsequently pointed to confirms it:

> There is an open bug about that:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651368

As I stated in comment 7 of that bug:

  Well, that strikes me as being the tree diving that Orca
  already does -- when Orca is forced to do it.

Orca tries to avoid doing it by keeping track of the active widget.

--joanie