Re: Coordinate information for GnomeCanvasRichText

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hi Alex,

We have accessibility support for GtkTextView which takes Pango into 
account, so that shouldn't be a problem for GnomeCanvasText.

Bounding box information for text is useful for screen readers which want 
to allow a blind person to accurately review what's on thescreen and to 
find out exactly where it is.

Thanks,

Marc

At 11:11 AM 11/13/2001 -0500, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've written initial accessibility support for libgnomecanvas, but the
> > implementation of the text interface is broken since there appears to 
> be no
> > way to get the bounding box information for characters in
> > GnomeCanvasRichText and GnomeCanvasText widgets.  Any ideas how to do this?
>
> If i have time this week i will try to unfuck the canvas. In particular,
> the text item is completely broken.
>
> But why do you need bounding box info for each character?
>
> Note that since these are pangoized, there may be a non-trivial mapping
> from unicode character(s) to glyph(s).
>
> / Alex