Re: [orca-list] Please help. A beginner's elementary queries on Orca source code: Query Set 1.

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Dattatray Bhat wrote:

> Query 1: I could not locate the functions queryText() and getTextAtOffset() at the url mentioned by Jon i.e. 
> http://people.gnome.org/~parente/pyatspi/doc/. Another url
> http://people.gnome.org/~billh/at-spi-idl shows the declaration of getTextAtOffset(), but nothing of 
> queryText(). The function details are also not found in the source code
> of either Orca or Python modules. So, my doubt remains. Aren't these functions part of any Python source 
> code? Are they implemented elsewhere and only made available to
> Orca? What enables Orca to call them? 

The query* functions are dynamically generated; there is one for each 
interface.  See _makeQuery() in pyatspi/accessible.py.

> Query 3: Again, after running ipython and importing pyatspi, TEXT_BOUNDARY_CHAR does show up as one of the 
> defined constants. But I am not able to locate it in the source
> code of any Python module. Where is its origin, please?

A lot of the pyatspi code is built from the idl (ie, the idl directory in 
the at-spi source).

All of this applies to the original CORBA at-spi, not to the dbus port.

-Mike G-