Re: [orca-list] AtkText interfaces

[Eric Williams <ericwill redhat com>]

Hello,

On 10/20/2017 07:37 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> I would have to check, but I thought that AT-SPI2 was mapping the new
> ATK API to the existing/old API. Is that not the case?


I am not sure what you mean by this, could you please clarify?

Eric


> On 10/20/2017 11:22 AM, Eric Williams wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am implementing AtkText interfaces for the GTK3 implementation of
> > Eclipse SWT.
> >
> > Currently we use atk_text_get_text_[before/at/after]_offset(), which are
> > deprecated. However when I replace these interfaces with
> > atk_text_get_string_at_offset(), Orca fails to read text where it
> > previously did. In fact, Orca doesn't call/query
> > atk_text_get_string_at_offset() at all.
> >
> > As a side note: I've noticed that the native GTK3 accessibility
> > implementation still uses the deprecated
> > atk_text_get_text_[before/at/after]_offset() interfaces.
> >
> > Is this a bug or am I missing some detail?
> >
> > Thanks,