Re: [orca-list] Help Interpreting Accerciser Output

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Steve.

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:09 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I got Accerciser running on my Arch machine now and now have questions
> on how to interpret some of its output.  I should first explain what
> the hell I'm doing here.
>
> My goal is to intercept the insert/overwrite toggle status from the
> status bar in gedit.

I think you'll find it helpful to try and narrow down the candidate
events you are monitoring. In the case of the insert/overwrite toggle,
think about what is happening when you toggle it: The text in the status
bar changes, right?

Therefore, were I doing this, the *only* events I would be monitoring
initially in Accerciser would be object:text-changed events. If, having
monitored those, I didn't get the expected events, then I would broaden
things to include object:state-changed events (perhaps a label goes from
showing to not showing).

I only go the route you did when none of the likely/expected events are
being emitted and I want to know what, if anything, I'm getting.

HTH.
--joanie