Re: ATK / Unix GUI question

>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to add ATK (Unix accessibility) support, assuming someone isn't
> doing this already, and I wanted to run a proposed approach by people
> before I go and do anything.
>

Hi Mike,
        Please continue with this work. It has been a gaping hole in the
project for a long time.

The answer to your question of why not gtktextview, is that widget is no
where near powerful enough for a WYSIWYG word processor. We need to draw
directly onto the screen to display the many features required.

Unfortunately, very few of us have taken the time to understand ATK, which
explains why we haven't implemented it yet so your help would be most
appreciated.

I will help as I can. Feel free to ask.

Cheers

Martin

> There is a bug for this (#4736), but I wrote to the person to whom it is
> assigned and got no reply, so I am assuming that no one is working on it
> right now. If any of you are working on this, then let me know; I don't
> want to duplicate effort.
>
> Anyway, it appears that document text is drawn onto a gtkDrawingArea, so
> I'm thinking of deriving a class from gtkDrawingArea and using this new
> class instead for the edit window. This new class would be bound to an
> AtkText interface with accessor functions to retrieve document text from
> the buffers. (Perhaps an AtkEditableText interface could be added later
> as well.)
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts, one way or the other, on whether or not
> this would be the best way to go about it? I'm curious as to why a
> gtkDrawingArea is used rather than, say, something derived from
> gtkTextView, although I'm new to all of this, so it may be a dumb
> question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
>
Received on Sun Aug 12 03:19:25 2007