Re: Orca overriding a method?

[Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs comcast net>]

Thanks so much, Rich!!  Have a great (rest of the) weekend.
--Joanie

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 18:14 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote:
> Hi Joanie,
>
> > Generically speaking, how does one override a method? In looking over
> > the existing scripts, it *seems* like you simply (re)define your method
> > within your script and your redefined method gets used instead of the
> > one in default.py, but since that's not actually working for me.... :)
> >
> > Specifically speaking, I noticed that Insert+F doesn't identify text
> > that is bold within Openoffice.org. Since weight seems to be the
> > relevant text attribute, I thought I'd experiment to see if I could
> > cause that information to be announced -- but only when Insert+F is
> > pressed in StarOffice/OOo. I tried defining readCharAttributes in
> > staroffice.py, but through a little debugging code I see that my
> > readCharAttributes is being ignored in favor of the one in default.py. 
> >
> > I'm not creating a new event handler and/or key binding, right???
>
> You need to add a new input event handler as well. The following diff to the
> current StarOffice.py script does what you are looking for. You will need
> to flesh out the new readCharAttributes() method. At the moment, it
> just calls the one in the super class.
>
>
> Index: StarOffice.py
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/orca/src/orca/scripts/StarOffice.py,v
> retrieving revision 1.44
> diff -u -r1.44 StarOffice.py
> --- StarOffice.py       12 Sep 2006 12:48:59 -0000      1.44
> +++ StarOffice.py       17 Sep 2006 01:12:37 -0000
> @@ -238,6 +238,11 @@
>
>          default.Script.setupInputEventHandlers(self)
>
> +        self.inputEventHandlers["readCharAttributesHandler"] = \
> +            input_event.InputEventHandler(
> +                Script.readCharAttributes,
> +                _("Reads the attributes associated with the current 
> text character."))
> +
>          self.inputEventHandlers["speakInputLineHandler"] = \
>              input_event.InputEventHandler(
>                  Script.speakInputLine,
> @@ -452,6 +457,10 @@
>          allLabels = util.findByRole(panel, rolenames.ROLE_LABEL)
>          for i in range(0, len(allLabels)):
>              self.speakSetupLabel(allLabels[i])
> +
> +    def readCharAttributes(self, inputEvent=None):
> +        print "StarOffice.py: readCharrAttributed called."
> +        default.Script.readCharAttributes(self, inputEvent)
>
>      # This method tries to detect and handle the following cases:
>      # 1) Writer: text paragraph.