Re: AccessibleRelations

Bill,

Bill Haneman wrote:

>David:
>
>There's been a substantial amount of testing of AccessibleRelation.
>
Okay great!  I am pleased to be wrong there.  I was looking at old 
archived messages...

>  I
>believe that it's fairly commonly implemented across the GNOME 2
>desktop.  I don't have the examples to hand but I do believe it's not
>uncommon.
>
>You can use at-poke to check for the presence of this API.  Note however
>that until recently there were difficulties with reciprocity (we could
>fairly easily automatically provide LABEL_FOR but LABELLED_BY wasn't
>alwayws reciprocally exposed).  However I believe this has recently been
>fixed/worked around in GAIL, so a recent build may expose LABELLED_BY
>more frequently.
>
Great, that gives me some direction.  LABELED_BY would keep the code 
cleaner.

cheers,

David

>
>regards,
>
>Bill
>
>On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:02, David Bolter wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all. 
>>
>>I have my suspicions that there hasn't been a lot of testing of the 
>>AccessibleRelation stuff.  I have done some work today on gok that makes 
>>uses of this promising API.  I am so far not finding an application that 
>>is exposing such an interface in an expected ontext.  In particular this 
>>is what I am looking for:
>>
>>An accessible object that has an AccessibleEditableText interface *and* 
>>a LABELLED_BY relation.  Presumeably gtk dialogs would be prime 
>>candidates (since the text fields probably don't expose useful names by 
>>themselves).  Can someone please confirm such a beast?  I need to know 
>>if my code is broken.
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>David
>>
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