Re: [orca-list] orca virtual window suggestion

["Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak polip com>]

Dnia 01-02-2008, piÄ o godzinie 18:56 -0500, Joanmarie Diggs pisze:
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> > As I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, the ability to copy
> > text from ordinarily uncopiable windows could actually be a very good
> > thing for non-orca users, especially those who wish to test unstable
> > software and report bugs.
>
> Lorenzo, I agree with you 100%.  I've manually retyped the contents of
> such dialogs for bug reports before, and I'll undoubtedly do it again.

So why limit this to Orca users? And why only in flat review mode?

My idea: create Python module implementing action similar to
'screenshot', but catching all accessible information from active window
into clipboard. This module would be used by Orca or (for non-orca
users) in simple application bound to some unused key combination.

Example:
zenity --error --text='this is error message' --title 'ugly dialog'

Application should store in clipboard something like:

Dialog: ugly dialog
Icon: dialog error
Label: this is error message
Push button: OK

Of course there must be some limitation (it's not a good idea to catch
all information from main Firefox window).

I am not very familiar with Python and pyatspi, but I think you can
write this program in some minutes ;)

What do you think?

Bohdan