Re: [orca-list] AtkText interfaces

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Aha. Thanks Mike. So that means I need to update Orca. I can do so
fairly soon, but then that means people using older versions of Orca
won't be able to use the software Eric is making accessible. Maybe
that's ok....

On 10/20/2017 08:31 PM, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, 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 just looked through the code in at-spi2-atk--if, say, orca calls
> GetStringAtOffset, then at-spi2-atk will fall back to calling
> atk_text_get_text_at_offset if the atk implementation doesn't implement
> get_string_at_offset, but we aren't mapping the other way around
> (calling atk_text_get_string_at_offset if AT-SPI is called with the
> deprecated function). Maybe we should be.
>
> -Mike
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