Re: Text Input with Windows Tablet Panel

[Evan Easton <evan eeaston com>]

Jernej Simončič wrote:

> AFAIK, the touchscreen in tablet PCs actually is a Wacom tablet.

Well,  no.  The touch screen in my tablet is made by eGalax.  It's 
resistance based, so it only registers touch, i.e. no pressure 
sensitivity.  So the normal OS mouse functions are sufficient, even 
though it's not a Wacom tablet.


Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> A somewhat related issue is support for accessibility on Windows.
> Those technologies also don't work with the GTK+ widgets.

Tor. You nailed it.  I agree that it is the same reason assistive 
technologies don't work; because widgets are not real Windows 
components.  This same issue exists on Mac OS X for any widget set 
that's not native (screen reader just says "X eleven" whenever I give 
focus to a GTK+ app :-) ).

As far as I know there are two solutions.
1) use native widgets somehow
2) build an OS specific bridge for each platform that passes hints to 
the OS as each component gets focus (IBM did this for Java a while back).

Neither solution is enticing, especially when the number of people with 
disabilities and/or tablets is low (or at the very least, the number who 
are vocal is very low).
Evan