Re: Orca customizing readCharAttributes for StarOffice.py

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hi Joanie, thanks for all these great ideas. 
> I have figured out how to grab all of this information when the toolbar
> happens to be visible.  What I'm toying with now is what to do with it.
> I figured I'd brainstorm with y'all. <smile>
>
>   
We have been working with the star office team to expose this 
information through the at-spi.  I'm really reluctant to depend on 
weather or not the toolbar is visible as is past screen reader 
experience has shown that it causes more frustration for the end user to 
depend on this.  information being shown in the toolbar when we should 
be able to query the character directly. 
> The other possibility that occurs to me is to handle things completely
> in StarOffice.py and not pass anything along to the super class for
> handling. The reason I'm thinking this might be worthwhile is that there
> is potentially a lot of attributes which you care about when formatting
> a document that you might not care about in some other environment (e.g.
> email). 


This is something I'd really like the communities feedback on as we've 
really tried to keep the current output as uniform as possible as my 
preference is the keep the "instert+f" output as generic wherever we can 
independent of what application is running but if the community would 
like each app to be more independent lets discuss this.  I do understand 
that different applications expose more information that we need to take 
into account but I've been trying to include that information which is 
common between applications wherever possible.  Thoughts on this please?
Mike