Re: Accessing glade widget properties from perl

[Tim Bunce <Tim Bunce pobox com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:14:45PM -0500, muppet wrote:
> Tim Bunce said:
> > How are fields on the tab with the wheelchair icon used?
> > Is there any documentation for them? (I couldn't find any.)
>
> it has to do with ATK, the accessibility toolkit (hence the wheelchair).  the
> information is used by the ATK stuff to provide hooks and information to
> screen readers and other assistive technologies.
>
> > Also, how can I access the contents of those fields from within perl?
>
> we currently have no ATK bindings.  quite frankly i don't know how to use it,
> and have never had cause to.

My interest is (sadly) in ab-using it to stash away extra info
to enable more functionality to be defined in glade. I may end up
putting small chunks perl code in there.

It would be handy if there was a general purpose text attribute
available for each widget to have me having to abuse 'real' ones.

Anyway, I guess I can dig the info out by parsing the xml...

Thanks.

Tim.