Re: [g-a-devel]RE: (no subject)

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 08:49, bharat tewari wrote:
> hmm.. wasn't it decided that rather than trying to re-invent the wheel of accessibility for gtkhtml, it would be better of providing editing support to gtkhtml2 and evolution would use gtkhtml2 in the future.
> was this idea dropped completely?

Evolution needs an editor as well, which gtkhtml2 lacks.

Luis

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gilbert Fang [mailto:gilbert fang sun com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:31 PM
> > To: Bill Haneman
> > Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org;
> > gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> > Subject: (no subject)
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, Bill
> > 
> > I plan to make the atk implementation of  the Gal and gtkhtml module.
> >  
> > I read the "GNOME Accessibilityf or Developers(CVS draft)". ( I could
> > not find it at gnome website now, is it deleted?) . It is said that
> > "programs that make sue of GAIL are written as GTK modules". 
> > And I found
> > that the exsting a11y codes of Gal and gtkhtml are built as  modules. 
> >  
> > But I found two kind of modules. One is GTK module with its 
> > init entry.
> > And other is as I name it Accessibilty module which has an different
> > entry .
> >   
> > The following is from libgnome/gnome-program.c
> > ======================================
> >  static gboolean
> > accessibility_invoke_module (GnomeProgram *program,
> > 			     const char   *libname,
> > 			     gboolean      init)
> > {
> > 	GModule    *handle;
> > 	void      (*invoke_fn) (void);
> > 	const char *method;
> > 	gboolean    retval = FALSE;
> > 	char       *module_name;
> > 
> > 	if (init)
> > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_init";
> > 	else
> > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_shutdown";
> > 
> > 	module_name = find_accessibility_module (program, libname);
> > 
> > 	if (!module_name) {
> > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to find 
> > module '%s' which "
> > 			   "is needed to make this application 
> > accessible",
> > 			   libname);
> > 
> > 	} else if (!(handle = g_module_open (module_name, 
> > G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY)))
> > {
> > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to load 
> > module '%s': '%s'",
> > 			   libname, g_module_error ());
> > 
> > 	} else if (!g_module_symbol (handle, method, (gpointer 
> > *)&invoke_fn)) {
> > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: error library '%s' 
> > does not include "
> > 			   "method '%s' required for 
> > accessibility support",
> > 			   libname, method);
> > 		g_module_close (handle);
> > 
> > 	} else {
> > 		retval = TRUE;
> > 		invoke_fn ();
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	g_free (module_name);
> > 
> > 	return retval;
> > }
> > =================
> > It seems the accessibility module should have the
> > "gnome_accessibility_module_init" function as the entry function.
> > 
> > 
> > Then what is the better one? Which way should I do for the future?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> > Gilbert 
> > 
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