Re: [orca-list] How do you script Orca?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Charlie:

Scripting Orca can have a steep learning curve in that you should be 
familiar with the pyatspi AT-SPI programming interface used by Orca.  
Depending upon what you want to do, however, you might be able to learn 
by example.  Orca's src/orca/default.py is the default script for Orca 
and scripts under the src/orca/scripts hierarchy all subclass 
default.py.  The orca/trunk/src/orca/scripts/apps/pidgin/ directory, 
for example, contains files to handle the pidgin instant messaging 
application.

Note that we've learned a lot about what's needed for scripting since 
we've started Orca, and we're currently looking at refactoring the code 
to make script writing much more approachable to prospective Orca 
developers.  Our priority is still on end users, however, so the 
refactoring is kind of taking a back seat at the moment.

Will

On Oct 26, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Charlie Dorff wrote:

> How do you script Orca? Is it difficult to do? Is it possible to use 
> scripts other people have written? Thanks.
> Charlie
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